run 
the conducting of a journey or passage from 
start to finish : as, to take a run to Paris ; the 
engineer had a good run from the west. Seamen 
are said to be engaged for the run when they are shipped 
for a single trip out or homeward, or from one port to 
another. 
3. The act of working or plying; operation; ac- 
tivity, as of a machine, mill, etc. ; also, a period 
of operation, or the amount of work performed 
in such a period. 
Of the trial on Oct. 8, Dr. W. says that, during a run of 
about 21 hours, 70 cells, of about 1,400 pounds of cane 
apiece, or 49 tons, were diffused, giving from 65 cells 
98,140 pounds of juice. Science, VI. 624. 
The inquiry is admissible whether sufficient current 
could not be stored up from the average nightly run of a 
station with a spare or extra dynamo to feed a dny circuit 
profitably. Sci. Amer., N. 8., LVIL 138. 
4. A flowing or pouring, as of a liquid; a cur- 
rent ; a flow. 
This past spring an oil-man . . . was suffocated in one 
of these tank-sheds while making a run of oil : viz., run- 
ning the oil from the receiving-tank to the transportation 
or pipe-line company's tanks. Science, XII. 172. 
Already along the curve of Sandag Bay there was a 
splashing run of sea that I could hear from where I stood. 
R. L. Stevenson, The Merry Men. 
5. Course; progress; especially, an observed 
or recorded course ; succession of occurrences 
or chances; account: as, the run of events. 
She lied the in and out o' the Sallivan house, and kind o' 
kept the run o' how things went and came in it. 
//. B. Stawe, Oldtown, p. 29. 
Even if I had ha'd time to follow his fortunes, it was not 
possible to keep the run of him. 
J. H'. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 62. 
6. Continuance in circulation, use, observance, 
or the like; a continued course, occurrence, or 
operation : as, a run of ill luck ; the run of a 
play or a fashion. 
Now (shame to Fortune !) an ill run at play 
Blank d his bold visage. Pope, Dunciad, i. 113. 
If the piece [-'The Reformed Housebreaker"] has its 
proper run, I have no doubt but that bolts and bars will 
be entirely useless by the end of the season. 
Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. 
It is amusing to think over the history of most of the 
publications which have had a rim during the last few 
years. Macaulay, Montgomery's Poems. 
7. A current of opinion ; tendency of thought ; 
prejudice. 
You cannot but have already observed what a violent 
run there is among too many weak people against univer- 
sity education. Swift, To a Young Clergyman. 
8. A general or extraordinary pressure or de- 
mand; specifically, a pressure on a treasury 
or a banking-house for payment of its obliga- 
tions. 
"Busy just now, Caleb?" asked the Carrier. "Why, 
pretty well, John. . . . There's rather a run on Noah's 
Arks at present." Dickens, Cricket on the Hearth, i. 
When there was a great run on Gottlib's bank in '16, I 
saw a gentleman come in with bags of gold, and say, "Tell 
Mr. Gottlib there's plenty more where that come from." 
It stopped the run, gentleman it did, indeed. 
George Eliot, Felix Holt, xx. 
9. Naut.: (a) The extreme after part of a ship's 
bottom or of the hold : opposed to entrance. (6) 
A trough for water that is caught by a coaming, 
built across the forecastle of a steamer to pre- 
vent the seas rushing aft. The run conducts 
the water overboard. 10. A small stream of 
water; a rivulet; a brook. See rine 1 . 
Out of the south-est parte of the said mountayue spring- 
eth and descendeth a lytle ryn, 
MS. Cot. Caliy. B. viii. (IlalliweU, under rin.) 
"Do any of my young men know whither this run will 
lead us?" A Delaware . . . answered: " Before the sun 
could go his own length, the little water will be in the 
bl . Cooper, Last of Mohicans, xxxii. 
11. In base-ball, the feat of running around all 
the bases without being put out. See base- 
ball. 
An earned run is one that is made without the assis- 
tance of fielding errors that is, in spite of the most per- 
fect playing of the opponents. 
The Century, XXXVIII. 835. 
12. In cricket, one complete act of running 
from one wicket to the other by both the bats- 
men without either being put out. See cricket. 
13. Power of running; strength for run- 
ning. 
They have too little run left in themselves to pull up 
for their own brothers. 
T. Hughes. Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 7. 
14. The privilege of going through or over; 
hence, free access, as to a place from which 
others are excluded ; freedom of use or eniov- 
ment. 
There is a great Peer in our neighborhood, who gives 
me the run of his library while he is in town. 
Sydney Smith, To Francis Jeffrey. 
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The contractor for the working of the railway was pleased 
to agree that I should have the "run of the shops." 
The Enquirer, LXIX. 387. 
15. That in or upon which anything runs or 
may run ; especially, a place where animals 
may or do run, range, or move about. Com- 
pare runway. Specifically (u) A stretch or range of 
pasturage, open or fenced, where cattle or sheep graze. 
A wool-grower . . . could not safely venture on more 
than 9,000 sheep ; for he might have his run swept by a 
flre any January night, and be forced to hurry his sheep 
down to the boiling-house. 
//. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, lix. 
If the country at the far end of the run is well grassed 
it will be occupied by a flock of sheep or two. 
A. C. Grant, Bush Life in Queensland, I. 61. 
(b) An extensive underground burrow, as of a mole or 
gopher. 
The mole has made his run, 
The hedgehog underneath the plantain bores. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
(c) The play-house of a bower-bird. See cut under ttower- 
nrd. (d) A series of planks laid down as a surface for 
rollers in moving heavy objects, or as a track for wheel- 
barrows, (e) Th'at., an incline ; a sloping platform repre- 
senting a road, etc. 
16. A pair of millstones. 
Every plantation, however, had a run of stone, propelled 
by mule power, to grind corn for the owners and their 
slaves. U. S. Grant, Personal Memoirs, II. 493. 
1 7. In music, a rapid succession of consecutive 
tones constituting a single melodic figure; a 
division or roulade. In vocal music a run is 
properly sung to a single syllable. 18. In 
mining: (a) The horizontal distance to which 
a level can be carried, either from the nature 
of the formation or in accordance with agree- 
ment with the proprietor. (6) The direction 
of a vein, (c) A failure caused by looseness, 
weakness, slipping, sliding, giving way, or the 
like ; a fault. 
The working has been executed in the most irregular 
manner, and has opened up enormous excavations; 
whence disastrous runs have taken place in the mines. 
Ure, Diet., II I. 294. 
19. Character; peculiarities; lie. 
Each . . . was entirely of the opinion that he knew the 
run of the country better than his neighbours. 
The Field, LXVII. 91. 
20. The quantity run or produced at one time, 
as in various mechanical operations. 
Where large quantities [of varnish] are required, it will 
always be found best to boil off the three rung in the boil- 
ing pot. Workshop Receipts, 1st ser., p. 65. 
Woollen yarns are weighed in lengths or runs of 1600 
yards. A. Earlow, Weaving, p. 330. 
21. (a) A herd ; a number of animals moving 
together, as a school of fish. (6) The action 
of such a school; especially, the general move- 
ment of anadromous fish up-stream or in-shore 
from deep water. Sportsman's Gazetteer. 22. 
A straight net, running out at right angles 
to the shore, and connecting with an inner 
pound ; a leader. See cut under pound-net. 
23. In physics, the value of a mean division 
of a circle or scale in revolutions of a microm- 
eter-scale, divisions of a level, etc. When a 
microscope with a micrometer is employed to read a 
circle or linear scale, it Is convenient to have a certain 
whole number of revolutions equal to a mean division of 
the circle or scale, and the amount by which the division 
exceeds or falls short of that whole number of revolutions, 
expressed in circular or linear measure, is called the error 
of runs, or, loosely, the run. It is taken as positive when 
the circle or scale-division is greater than the intended 
whole number of turns. By the run, suddenly; quick- 
ly; all at once; especially, by a continuous movement; 
said of a fall, descent, and the like : as, the wall came 
down by the run. Earned run. See quotation under 
def. 11, above. Home run, in base-ball, a continuous cir- 
cuit of the bases made by a batsman as a consequence of 
a hit, and not due to any flelding errors of the opponents. 
In or at the long run, after a long course of experi- 
ence ; at length ; as the ultimate result of long trial. 
I might have caught him [a trout] at the long-run, for so 
I use always to do when I meet with an overgrown fish. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 115. 
I am sure always, in the long run, to be brought over to 
her way of thinking. Lamb, Mackery End. 
Often it is seen that great changes which in the long-run 
turn to the good of the community bring suffering and 
grievous loss on their way to many an individual. 
Shairp, Culture and Religion, p. 129. 
Run to Clear, in lumber-manuf., the proportion of clear 
sawed lumber in the output of a plant, or in the lumber- 
product of a quantity of logs when sawed : opposed to run 
to culls, which is the proportion of culls or defective 
pieces. Strawberry run, a run of fish in the season 
of the year when strawberries are ripe. Compare dande- 
lion fleet, vessels sailing when dandelions are in bloom. 
[Local, u. S.] The common run (or, simply, the run), 
that which passes under observation as most usual or 
common ; the generality. 
In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and 
good you find ten of a contrary character. 
Addison, Spectator, N'o. 287. 
To get the run upon, to turn the joke upon ; turn into 
ridicule. [V. S.] 
runaway 
run 1 (run), p. a. [Pp. of run*, r.] 1. Liquefied ; 
melted: as, run butter. Bee buffer 1 . [Colloq.] 
2. Smuggled ashore or landed secretly; con- 
traband: as, run brandy ; a run cargo. [Colloq.] 
She boasted of her feats in diving into dark dens in 
search of run goods, charming things French warranted 
that could be had for next to nothing. 
Miss Edgeworth, Helen, xxv. (Domes.) 
3. Having migrated or made a run, as a fish; 
having come up from the sea. Compare run- 
fish. 
Your fish is strong and active, fresh run, as full soon 
you see. Quarterly ttev., CXXVI. 341. 
run 2 , w. See riiini. 
runabout (run'a-bout"), w. 1. A gadabout; a 
vagabond. 
A runne-about, a skipping French-man. 
Marsttm, What you Will, 111. 1. 
2. Any light open wagon for ready and handy 
use. 
runagate (run'a-gat), a. and n. [Formerly also 
riiiiiiai/ate; a corruption of E. renegade (< ME. 
renegat), confused with run (ME. renne) a gate, 
1. e., 'run on the way,' and perhaps with runa- 
way: see renegate, renegade.] I. a. 1. Eene- 
gade; apostate. 
To this Mahomet succeeded his sonne called Amurathes. 
He ordeyned first the lanissaryes, runnagate Christians, to 
defend his person. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 331. 
He [William Tyndale, the translator of the Scriptures] 
was a runagate friar living in foreign parts, and seems to 
have been a man of severe temper and unfortunate life. 
n. W. Dixon, Hist. ( hurch of Eng., i. 
2. Wandering about; vagabond. 
Where they dare not with their owne forces to inuade. 
they basely entertaine the traitours and vacabonds cf all 
Nations ; seeking by those and by their runnagate Jesuits 
to winne parts. UaMuyt's Voyages, II. 1L 174. 
II. n. 1. A renegade; an apostate; hence, 
more broadly, one who deserts any cause ; a 
turncoat. 
He ... letteth the runagates continue in scarceness. 
Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, Ps. Ixviii. 6. 
Traitor, no king, that seeks thy country's sack, 
The famous runagate of t hristendom ! 
Peele, Edward I. 
Hence, hence, ye slave! dissemble not thy state, 
But henceforth be a turncoat, runauntf. 
Marston, Satires, 1. 122. 
2. One who runs away; a fugitive; a run- 
away. 
Dido I am, unless I be deceiv'd. 
And must I rave thus for a runagate f 
Must I make ships for him to sail away? 
Marlowe and A'ash, Dido, Queen of Carthage, v. 1. 265. 
Thus chaind in wretched servitude doth live 
A runagate, and English fugitive. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 52. 
3. A runabout ; a vagabond ; a wanderer. 
He now cursed Cain from the earth, to be a runagate 
and wanderer thereon. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 33. 
A vagabond and straggling runnanate ; . . . 
That vagrant exile, that vile bloody Cain. 
Drayton, Queen Isabel to Rich. II. 
runaway (run'a-wa"), . and u. [< 4 l + 
away.'] I. n. 1. One who flees or departs; a 
fugitive ; a deserter. 
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled ? 
Shalt., M. N. D., ill. 2. 405. 
My son was born a freeman ; this, a slave 
To beastly passions, a fugitive 
And run-away from virtue. 
Fletcher (and another), Queen of Corinth, v. 2. 
The night hath plaid the swift-foot runne-away. 
Ueywood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, II. 21). 
2. A running away, as by a horse when break- 
ing away from control and bolting. 
If the driver is standing against one of the ultra-sloping 
driving cushions, a runaway will be found impossible. 
New York Tribune, May 11, 1890. 
3. One who runs in the public ways ; one who 
roves or rambles about. 
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night, 
That runaways' eyes may wink, and Romeo 
Leap to these arms untalk d of and unseen. 
SAa*., R. and J., iii. 2. 6. 
II. a. 1. Acting the part of a runaway; es- 
caping or breaking from control; defying or 
overcoming restraint : as, a runaway horse. 
Shakspeare . . . was a runaway youth. . . . who ob- 
tained his living in London by holding horses at the door 
of the theatre for those who went to the play. 
E. Ecerett, Orations, I. S19. 
2. Accomplished or effected by running away 
or eloping. 
We are told that Miss Michell's guardian would not 
consent to his ward's marriage [with Bysshu Shelley], that 
it was a runaway match, and that the wedding was cele- 
brated in London by the parson of the Fleet. 
E. Dou-den, Shelley, I. 3. 
