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When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the 
good circumstances of it ; when it is obtained, our minds 
run wholly on the bad ones. Su-ijt. 
(e) To pass by slight gradations or changes ; blend or merge 
gradually : with into : as, colors that run into one another. 
Observe how system into system runs. 
Pope, Essay on Man, i. 2.'. 
(/) To migrate, as fish ; go in a school. 
Salmon run early in the year. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLI. 406. 
15. To have a certain direction, course, or 
track; extend; stretch: as, the street runs east 
and west. 
The ground cloath of siluer, richly embroidered with 
! olden Sunns, and about euery Sunne ran a traile of gold, 
nitating Indian worke. 
Chapman, Masque of Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn. 
Searching the ulcer with my probe, the sinus run up 
above the orifice. Wiseman, Surgery. 
And thro' the field the road run* by 
To many-tower'd Camelot. 
Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, i. 
16. To have a certain form, tenor, or purport; 
be written or expressed : as, the argument runs 
as follows. 
They must . . . 
For so run the conditions leave those remnants 
Of fool and feather that they got in France. 
Shak., Hen. VIII., i. 3. 24. 
Once on a time (so runs the fable) 
A country mouse, right hospitable. 
Received a town mouse at his board. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, II. vi. 157. 
That Matthew's numbers run with ease 
Each man of common sense agrees ! 
Cowper, Epistle to Robert Lloyd. 
17. In law: (a) To have legal authority or ef- 
fect; be in force. 
It cannot be said that the Emperor's writs run in it ex- 
cept in some few settled districts. 
Athenseum, No. 3068, p. 202. 
The Queen's writ, it has been remarked, cannot be said 
to run in large parts of Ireland, while in every part of the 
United States the Federal writ is implicitly obeyed. 
Nineteenth Century, XIX. 798. 
(6) To pass in connection with or as an inci- 
dent to. Thus, a covenant restricting the use or enjoy- 
ment of land is said to run with the land, alike if the bur- 
den it imposes is to continue on the land burdened, into 
whatsoever hands that land passes, or if the right to claim 
its enforcement is to pass with the land intended to be 
benefited, into whosesoever hands the latter land may 
pass. If the covenant does not run with the land, it is 
merely personal, binding and benefiting only the parties 
to it and their personal representatives. 
Covenants are said to " run with the land " when the 
liabilities and rights created by them pass to the assignees 
of the original parties. Encyc. Brit., XIV. 275. 
18. To be current; circulate publicly, (a) To 
be in current use or circulation. 
And whan that Money hathe ronne so longe that it be- 
gynnethe to waste, than men beren it to the Empuroures 
Tresorye. Mandeville, Travels, p. 239. 
Are not these the Spanish " pillar dollars " ; and did they 
not run current in England as crown pieces ? 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 338. 
(6) To be publicly heard or known ; be spread abroad ; 
pass from one to another. 
"What, is this Arthures hous," quoth the hathel thenne, 
"That all the rous [fame] rennet of, thurj ryalmes so 
mony ? " 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 310. 
There ran a rumor 
Of many worthy fellows that were out. 
Shak., Macbeth, Iv. 3. 182. 
One day the story ran that Hamilton had given way, 
and that the government would carry every point. 
Macaulay, Hist. Bug., vi. 
A murmuring whisper thro' the nunnery ran. 
Tennyson, Guinevere. 
19. To keep going ; be kept up ; extend through 
a period of time; continue (used specifically of 
a play or other theatrical exhibition); hence, 
specifically, to continue so long before expiring 
or being paid or becoming payable : as, a sub- 
scription that has three months to run ; the ac- 
count ran on for a year. 
She saw, with joy, the line immortal run, 
Each sire impress'd and glaring in his son. 
Pope, Dunciad, I. 99. 
Learning that had run in the family like an heirloom! 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 3. 
No question had ever been raised as to Mr. Nolan's ex- 
traction on the strength of his hooked nose, or of his name 
being Baruch. Hebrew names ran in the best Saxon fam- 
ilies ; the Bible accounted for them. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, xx. 
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one Increasing purpose 
""" Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
i j rh , play " thi " occa sion . . . only ran three days, and 
then bir John Vanbrugli produced his comedy called "The 
Confederacy. " 
J. Ashton, Social Life In Reign of Queen Anne, II. 8. 
20. To reach a certain pitch, extent, impor- 
tance, quality, or value; hence, to average; 
rule. 
5270 
"Bad this year, better the next." We must take things 
rough and smooth as they run. 
Foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. 
The disputes between the King and the Parliament run 
very high. Walpole, Letters, II. 611. 
An age when Saurians run ridiculously small. 
George Eliot, Theophrastus Such, iii. 
In 1795 and 1796 . . . the price of wheat ran far be- 
yond the statutory 548., viz., to 7:>s. the quarter. 
S. Dowett, Taxes in England, IV. 11. 
When Barrels are sold as they run, the terra "as they 
run " shall be understood to refer to the condition as to 
cooperage only. 
New York Produce Exchange Report (1888-9). p. 279. 
21. To rest, as on a foundation or basis ; turn; 
hinge. 
Much upon this riddle rum the wisdom of the world. 
Shak., M. for M., iii. 2. 242. 
It is a confederating with him to whom the sacrifice is 
offered ; for upon that the apostle's argument rum. 
Bp. Attertntry. 
22. In music, to perform a run or similar figure. 
As when a maide, taught from her mother's wing 
To tune her voyce unto a silver string, 
When she should run, she rests ; rests, when should run. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, i. 5. 
23. In a variety of technical uses, to go awry; 
make a fault; Blip: as, a thread runs in knit- 
ting when a stitch is dropped. 
A common drill may run, as it is usually termed, and 
produce a hole which is anything but straight. 
Farrow, Mil. Encyc., in. 524. 
Lace made without this traversing motion would, in 
case a thread was broken, run or become undone. 
A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 360. 
24. To press with numerous and urgent de- 
mands: as, to run upon a bank. 25. To keep 
on the move ; go about continually or uneasily ; 
be restless, as a rutting animal; be in rut __ To 
cut and run. See cut. To let run, to allow to pass free- 
ly or easily; slacken, as a rope, cable or the like. To run 
across, to come across ; meet by chance ; fall in with: as, 
to run across a friend in London. To run after, to seek 
after ; of persons, to pursue, especially for social purposes ; 
hence, to court the society of. 
The mind, upon the suggestion of any new notion, rum 
after similes, to make it the clearer to itself. Locke. 
If he wants our society, let him seek it. ... I will not 
spend my hoars in running aj'ter mv neighbours. 
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Hii. 
To run against, (a) To come into collision with. 
This man of God had his share of suffering from some 
that were convinced by him, who, through prejudice or 
mistake, ran against him. 
Penn, Rise and Progress of Quakers, v. 
Same as to run across, (c) To result unfavorably or 
versely to. 
The owner hath incurred the forfeiture of eight years' 
profits of his lands before he Cometh to the knowledge of 
the process that runneth aijainst him. Bacon. 
Had the present war indeed run against us, and all our 
attacks upon the enemy been vain, it might look like a de- 
gree of frenzy ... to be determined on so impracticable 
an undertaking. Addison, Present State of the War. 
To run ahead of one's reckoning. See reckoning. 
To run amuck. See amuck. To run at, to assail sud- 
denly ; rush upon. 
Jack Stamford would have run at him (Feltonl, but he 
was kept off by Mr. Nicholas. Howell, Letters, I. v. 7. 
To run at the ring. See ringi. To run away or off 
with, (a) To carry off in sudden or hurried flight : as, a 
horse runs away with a carriage ; the mutineers ran away 
with the ship. 
Now in lames Towne they were all in combustion, the 
strongest preparing once more to run away wtth the Pin- 
nace. Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 163. 
(&) To abscond or elope with. 
Now, my dear sir, between you and I, we know very 
well, my dear sir, that you have run off with this lady for 
the sake of her money. Dickens, Pickwick, x. 
(c) To carry too far ; lead beyond bounds ; transport. 
His desires run away with him through the strength 
and force of a lively imagination. Steele, Tatler, No. 27. 
To run awry. See awry. To run before, (a) To run 
from in flight ; flee before : as, the troops ran before the 
enemy. (&) To outstrip ; surpass ; excel. 
But the scholar ran 
Before the master, and so far, that Bleys 
Laid magic by. Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 
To run counter. See counter*, adv., i. To run deep, 
to swim far under water, as f sh or a whale. To run 
down, (a) To have its motive power exhausted ; stop 
working: as, the clock or the musical box ran down. (6) 
To become weakened or exhausted ; deteriorate ; fall off : 
as, his health has run down. 
Here was, evidently, another case of an academy having 
run down, and its operations discontinued. 
Supreme Court Reporter, X. 809. 
To run down a coast, to sail along it. To run foul Of. 
Same as to fall foul of (which see under /owji). To run 
idle. See idle. To run in. (n) In printing: (1) Same as 
to run on. (21 To occupy a smaller space in type than was 
expected : said of copy. (6) In the refining of iron as fol- 
lowed in Yorkshire, England, to run the molten pis; di- 
rectly from the furnace into the refinery : distinguished 
from melting down, when the refinery is charged with un- 
melted pip;, scrap, etc. To run in debt, to incur pecu- 
niary obligations ; make a debt. 
(6) 
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run 
Our long stay here hath occasioned the expense of much 
more money than I expected, so as 1 am run much in Mr. 
done'* debt. Winthrup, Hist. New England, 1. 446. 
To run in one's head or mind, to linger in one's memo- 
ry ; haunt one s mind. 
These courtiers run in my mini still. 
B. J onson, 1'oetaster, ii. 1. 
Heigh ho ! Though he has used me so, this fellow rum 
strangely in my head. I believe one lecture from my 
grave cousin will make me recall him. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, v. 1. 
To run In the blood. See Wood. To run Into, to ran 
against; collide with. To run In teust. See trust. To 
run In With, (a) To agree, comply, or close with. (6) 
Xitnt., to sail close to: as, to run in with the land. To 
run mad. See modi. To run of cor on) a garget*. 
See garget. To run off with. See to run away mth. 
To run on. (a) To keep on ; continue without pause or 
change ; especially, to keep on talking ; keep up a running 
stream of conversation ; ramble on in talking. 
Even BO must I run on, and even so stop. 
What surety of the world, w hat hope, what stay, 
When this was now a king, and now Is clay? 
Shak., K. John, v. 7. 67. 
Even Boswell could say, with contemptuous compassion, 
that he liked very well to hear honest Goldsmith run on. 
"Yes, sir," said Johnson, "but he should not like to hear 
himself." Slaeaulay, Oliver Goldsmith. 
If) Specifically, in printing, to continue in the same line 
without making a break or beginning a new paragraph, (c) 
To carry on; behave in a lively, frolicsome manner ; laugh 
and jest, as from high spirits. [Colloq. | To run on all 
fours. See/our, n. To run on pattens*. See patten*. 
To run on sorts, in printing, to require an unusual or 
disproportionate quantity of one or more characters or 
types : said of copy. To run out. (a) To stop after run- 
ning to the end of its time, as a watch or a sand-glass. 
Every Tuesday I make account that I turn a great hour- 
glass, and consider that a week's life is run out since I 
writ. Donne, Letters, xx. 
(6) To come to an end ; expire : as, a lease runs out at Mi- 
chaelmas, (c) To be wasted or exhausted : as, his money 
will soon run out. 
Th' estate runs out, and mortgages are made, 
Their fortune ruin d, and their fame betray'd. 
Dryden. 
(d) To become poor by extravagance. 
Had her stock been less, no doubt 
She must have long ago run out. Dryden. 
(e) To grow or sprout ; spread exuberantly. [Prov. Eng. ] 
(/t) To expatiate ; run on. 
She ran out extravagantly in praise of Hocus. 
Arbuthnot. 
(ff) In printing, to occupy a larger space in type than was 
expected : said of copy. To run out Of, to come to the 
end of ; run short of ; exhaust. 
When we had run out of our money, we had no living 
soul to befriend us. Steele, Guardian, No. 141. 
To run over, (a) [Over, adv.) To overflow. 
Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and 
running over, shall men give into your bosom. 
Luke vl. 38. 
Excessive Joys so swell'd her Soul, that she 
Rung over with delicious tears. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 204. 
(b) [Over, prep.) (1) To go over, examine, recapitulate, or 
recount cursorily. 
I ran over their cabinet of medals [at Zurich], but do 
not remember to have met with any in it that are extraor- 
dinary rare. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bonn, I. 522). 
(2) To ride or drive over : as, to run over a child. To run 
riot. See riot To run rusty. See rusty*. To run 
through, to spend quickly ; dissipate : as, he soon ran 
through his fortune. 
For a man who hadlong ago run thrminh his own money, 
servitude in a great family was the best kind of retirement 
after that of a pensioner. George Eliot, 1'elix Holt, xxv. 
To run together, (a) To mingle or blend, as metals 
fused in the same vessel. (f In mining, to fall in, as the 
walls of a lode, so as to render the shafts and levels im- 
passable. Ansted. (c) To keep in a pod or school, as 
whales when one of their number has been struck. To 
run to seed, (a) To shoot or spindle up, become stringy, 
and yield flowers, and ultimately seed, instead of develop- 
ing the leaves, head, root, etc., for which they are valued : 
said of herbaceous plants. Such plants, if not required 
for seed, are pulled up and rejected as refuse. 
Better to me the meanest weed 
That blows upon its mountain, 
The vilest herb that runs to seed 
Beside its native fountain. 
Tennyson, Amphion. 
Hence (6) To become impoverished, exhausted, or worn 
out; go to waste. To run under, to swim under water 
near the surface after being struck, as a whale. To run 
UP. (a) [Up, adv.] (1) To rise; grow; Increase: as, ac- 
counts run up very fast. (2) '1 o draw up ; shrink, as cloth 
when wet. 
In working woollen cloth?, they are. as is well known, 
liable to run up or contract in certain dimensions, becom- 
ing thicker at the same time. 
W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 83. 
(b) \Up. prep.] To count rapidly from bottom to top of in 
calculating, as a column of figures. To run upon, to 
quiz ; make a butt of. |T T . S.] 
He is a quiet, good-natured, inoffensive sort of chap, 
and will stand runninrj upon as long as most men, but 
who is a perfect tiger when his passions are roused. 
A. B. Lonystreet, Southern Sketches, p. 137. (Bartlett.) 
To run Wide, to school at a considerable distance from 
the shore, or out of easy reach of the seine, as fish. 
[ Heaufort, North Carolina.) -To run with the machine. 
See machine. 
