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RUN. 
Fair Virginia would her fate bestow 
On Rutila, and change her faultless make 
For the foul rumple of her camel-back. Dn/den. 
To RU'MPLE, v. a. To crush or contract into inequali¬ 
ties and corrugations; to crush together out of shape.—I— 
will be so hardy as once more to unpin your spruce 
fastidious oratory, to rumple her laces, her frizzles, and her 
bobbins! Milton.' 
RUMPST, a small inland town of the Netherlands. 
Population 2000 ; 7 miles east-by-south of Antwerp. 
RUMULHUE, a river of Chili, which runs south, and 
enters the Cauten. 
RUM WOOD, a village of England, in Sherwood forest, 
Nottinghamshire. 
RUM WORTH, a township of England, in Lancashire ; 
3| miles west-by-south of Great Bolton. Population 768. 
RUN, a very extensive salt Morass of Hindostan, which 
bounds the western frontier of the province of Gujerat, and 
communicates with the gulf of Cutch, several hundred miles 
in length. It is supposed to have been formerly covered by 
the sea, and still retains its salt particles. It affords excellent 
pasture, and some fine horses are bred in its vicinity. It be¬ 
longs to several petty chiefs, who are frequently at war with 
each other. 
To RUN, v. n. pret. ran [;rinnan , Gothick; pennian, 
Saxon. And according to the Saxon form, Chaucer writes 
it renne. ] To move swiftly, to ply the lags in such a 
manner, as that both feet are at every step off the ground at 
the same time; to make haste; to pass with very quick 
pace.—Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 
Prov. —Laban ran out unto the man unto the well. Ge¬ 
nesis. —To use the legs in motion.—Seldom there is 
need of this, till young children can run about. Locke. 
—To move in a hurry. 
The priest and people run about. 
And at the ports all thronging out, 
As if their safety were to quit 
Their mother. B. Jonson. 
To pass on the surface, not through the air.—The Lord 
sent thunder, and the fire ran along upon the ground.—To 
rush violently.—Let not thy voice be heard, lest angry 
fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life. Judges .— 
To take a course at sea.-— Running under the island Clauda, 
we had much work to come by the boat. Acts. —To con¬ 
tend in a race.—A horseboy, being lighter than you, may 
be trusted to run races with less damage to the horses. 
Swift. —To flee; not to stand. It is often followed by 
away in this sense. The difference between the valour of 
the Irish rebels and the Spaniards was, that the one ran away 
before they were charged, and the other straight after. Bacon. 
—To go away by stealth.—My conscience will serve me to 
run from this Jew, my master. Shalcspeare. —To emit, or 
let flow any liquid. 
My statues. 
Like a fountain, with a hundred spouts. 
Did run pureblood. Shakspcare. 
To flow; to stream; to have a current; not to stagnate. 
—Innumerable islands were covered with flowers, and inter¬ 
woven with shining seas that ran among them. Addison. 
-—To be liquid; to be fluid.—In lead melted, when it begin- 
neth to congeal, make a little hole, in which put quicksilver 
wrapped in a piece of linnen, and it will fix and run no 
more, and endure the hammer. Bacon. —To be fusible; to 
melt. 
Her form glides through me, and my heart gives way; 
This iron heart, which no impression took 
From wars, melts down, and runs, if she butlook. Dn/den. 
Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. Woodward. —To 
fuse; to melt.—Your iron must not burn in the fire; that is, 
run or melt; for then it will be brittle. Moron. —To pass; 
to proceed.—You, having run through so much publick 
business, have found out the secret so little known, that there 
is a time to give it over. Temple .—To flow as periods or 
metre; to have a cadence: as, the lines run smoothly.—To 
go away; to vanish; to pass.—As fast as our time runs, we 
should be very glad in most parts of our lives, that it ran 
much faster. Addison. —To have a legal course; to be 
practised.—Customs run only upon our goods imported or 
exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs 
as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid. 
Child.— -To have a course in any direction.—A hound runs, 
counter, and yet draws dry foot well. Shakspcare .—To 
pass in thought or speech. 
Could you hear the annals of our fate; 
Through such a train of woes if I should run. 
The day wou’d sooner than the tale be done. Dry den. 
To be mentioned cursorily, or in few words.—The whole 
runs on short, like articles in an account, whereas, if the 
subject were fully explained, each of them might take up 
half a page. Arbuthnot .—To have a continual tenour of 
any kind.—Discourses ran thus among the clearest ob¬ 
servers : it was said, that the prince, without any imaginable 
stain of his religion, had, by the sight of foreign courts, much 
corroborated his judgement Wotton .—To be busied upon. 
His grisly heard his pensive bosom sought. 
And all on Lausus ran his restless thought. Dry den. 
To be popularly known.—Men gave them their own 
names, by which they run a great while in Rome. Temple. 
—To have reception, success, or continuance: as, the pamph¬ 
let ran much among the lower people.—To go on by a 
succession of parts. 
She saw with joy the line immortal run, 
Each sire imprest and glaring in his son. - Pope. 
To proceed in a train of conduct.—If you suspend your 
indignation against my brother, till you can derive from 
him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain 
course. Shakspeare. —To pass into some change.—Is it 
really desirable, that there should be such a being in the 
world, as takes care of the frame of it, that it do not run into 
confusion and ruin mankind. Tillotson. —To pass.—We 
have many evils to prevent, and much danger to run 
through. Bp. Taylor .—To proceed in a certain order. 
-—Day yet wants much of his race to run. Milton. 
—To be in force.—The owner hath incurred the forfeiture of 
eight years’ profits of his lands, before he cometh lo the 
knowledge of the process that runneth against him. Bacon. 
—To be generally received.—Neither was he jgiiorant what 
report run of himself, and how he had lost the hearts of his 
subjects. Kno/les .—To be carried on in any manner.— 
Concessions, that run as high as any, the most charitable 
protestants make. Atterbury .—To have a track or course.— 
Searching the ulcer with my probe, the sinus run up above 
the orifice. Wiseman. —To pass irregularly.—The planets 
do not of themselves move in curve lines, but are kept in 
them by some attractive force, which, if once suspended, they 
would for ever run out in right lines. Cheyne .—To make 
a gradual progress. 
The wing’d colonies 
There settling, seize the sweets the blossoms yield. 
And a low murmur runs along the field. Pope. 
To be predominant.—This run in the head of a late 
writer of natural history, who is not wont to have the most 
lucky hits in the conduct of his thoughts. Woodward .—To 
tend in growth.—A man’s nature runs either to herbs or 
weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and 
destroy the other. Bacon .—To grow exuberantly.—Joseph 
is a fruitful bough, whose branches run overthe wall. Gen. 
—To excern pus or matter.—Whether his flesh run with 
his issue, or be stopped, it is his uncleanness. Lev. —To 
become irregular; to change to something wild.-—Many 
have run out of their wits for women. 1 Esdr .—To fall 
by haste, passion, or folly into fault or misfortune. 
To 
