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RUN 
RUN 
If thou rememb’rest not the slightest folly. 
That ever love did make thee run into; 
Thou hast not lov’d. Shakspeare. 
To fall; to pass; to make transition.—In the middle of 
a rainbow, the colours are sufficiently distinguished ; but 
near the borders they ran into one another, so that you 
hardly know how to limit the colours. Watts. —To have a 
general tendency.—Temperate climates run into moderate 
governments, and the extremes into despotick power. Swift. 
To proceed as on a ground or principle.—It is a confed¬ 
erating with him, to whom the sacrifice is offered : for upon 
that the apostle’s argument runs. Atterbury. —To go on 
with violence.—Tarquin, running into all the methods of 
tyranny, after a cruel reign was expelled. Swift.—To Run 
after. To search for; to endeavour at, though out of the 
way.—The mind, upon the suggestion of any new notion, 
runs after similes, to make it the clearer to itself; which, 
though it may be useful in explaining our thoughts to others, 
is no right method to settle true notions in ourselves. Locke. 
— To Run away with. To hurry without deliberation.— 
Thoughts will not be directed what objects to pursue, but 
run away with a man in pursuit of those ideas they have in 
view. Locke. — To Run in with. To close; to comply.— 
Though Ramus run in with the first reformers of learning, 
in his opposition to Aristotle, yet he has given us a plausible 
system. Baker.—To Run on. To be continued.—If, 
through our too much security, the same should run on, 
soon might we feel our estate brought to those lamentable 
terms, whereof this hard and heavy sentence was by one of 
the ancients uttered. Hooker. — To Run on. To continue 
the same course.— Tunning on with vain prolixity. Drayton. 
— To Run over. To be so full as to overflow. 
He fills his famish’d maw, his mouth runs o'er 
With unchew’d morsels, while he churns the gore. Dry den. 
To Run over. To be so much as to overflow.—Milk 
while it boils, or wine while it works, run over the vesselsthey 
are in, and possess more place than when they were cool. 
Digby.—To Run over. To recount cursorily.—I shall run 
them over slightly, remarking chiefly what is obvious to the 
eye. Ray. —I shall not run over all the particulars, that 
would shew what pains are used to corrupt children. Locke. 
— To Run over. To consider cursorily.—These four every 
man should run over, before he censure the works he shall 
view. Wotton .—If we run over the other nations of 
Europe, we shall only pass through so many different scenes 
of poverty. Addison.—To Run over. To run through. 
—Should a man run over the whole circle of earthly 
pleasures, he would be forced to complain that pleasure was 
not satisfaction. South. — To Run out. To be at an end. 
When a lease had run out, he stipulated with the tenant to 
resign up twenty acres, without lessening his rent, and no 
great abatement of the fine. Swift.—To Run out. To 
spread exuberantly. Insectile animals, for want of blood, 
run all out into legs. Hammond. — To Run out. To 
expatiate.—Nor is it sufficient to run out into beautiful 
digressions, unless they are something of a piece with the 
main design of the Georgick. Addison .-—On all occasions, 
she run out extravagantly in praise of Hocus. Arbuthnot. 
—They keep to their text, and run out upon the power of 
the pope, to the diminution of councils. Baker. —He shews 
his judgement, in not letting his fancy run out into long 
descriptions. Broome.—To Run out. To be wasted or 
exhausted. 
He hath run out himself, and led forth 
His desp’rate party with him; blown together 
Aids of all kinds. B. Jons on. 
From growing riches with good cheer. 
To running out by starving here. Swift. 
Poor Romeo is already dead, run through the ear with a 
love song. Shakspeare. —To force ; to drive. In nature, 
it is not convenient to consider every difference that is in 
things, and divide them into distinct classes; this will run u 
into particulars, and we shall be able to establish no general 
truth. Locke. —To force into any way or form.—Some, used 
to mathematical figures, give a reference to the methods of 
that science in divinity or politick enquiries; others, 
accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy 
into metaphysical notions. Locke .—To drive with vio¬ 
lence.—They ran the ship aground. Acts. —To melt; 
to fuse. The purest gold must be run and washed. Felton. 
—To incur; to fall into—He runneth two dangers, that he 
shall not be faithfully counseled, and that he shall have 
hurtful counsel given. Bacon. —To venture; to hazard.— 
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and 
run his fortune with them. Clarendon. Heavy impositions 
lessen the import, and are a strong temptation of running 
goods. Swift .—To prosecute in thought.—To run the world 
back to its first original, and view nature in its cradle, to 
tract the outgoings of the Ancient of Days in the first instance 
of his creative power, is a research too great for mortal 
inquiry. South. — To Run down. To chase to weariness. 
—They ran down a stag, and the ass divided the prey very 
honestly. L'Estrange. — To Run down. To crush; to 
overbear. 
Though out-number’d, overthrown. 
And by the fate of war run down. 
Their duty never was defeated. Hudibras. 
RUN, s. [from the verb.] Act of running.—The ass 
sets up a hideous bray, and fetches a run at them open 
mouth. L'Estrange. —Course; motion.—Want of motion, 
whereby the run of humours is stayed, furthers putrefaction. 
Bacon. —Flow; cadence.—He no where uses any softness, 
or any run of verses to please the ear. Broome. —General 
mass. — Our common run of ladies. Swift. —Way; 
will; uncontrolled course.—Talk of some other subject ; the 
thoughts of it make me mad; our family must have their 
run. Arbuthnot. —Long reception; continued success.—It 
is impossible for detached papers to have a general run or 
long continuance, if not diversified with humour. Addison. 
—Modish clamour; popular censure. You cannot but 
have observed, what a violent run there is among too many 
weak people against university education. Swift. —He bade 
him not be discouraged at this run upon him; for though 
they had got the laughers upon their side, yet mere wit and 
raillery could not hold it out long against a work of so much 
learning. Warburton. — At the long Run. In fine; in 
conclusion; at the end.—They produce ill-conditioned 
ulcers, for the most part mortal in the long run of the disease. 
Wiseman. —Wickedness may prosper for a while, but at the 
long run, he that sets all knaves at work will pay them. 
L'Estrange .—Shuffling may serve for a time, but truth will 
most certainly carry it at the long run. L'Estrange .— 
Hath falsehood proved at the long run more for the advance¬ 
ment of his estate than truth ? Tillotson. 
RUNACHUSAN, a small island near the west coast of 
Scotland. Lat. 58. 13. N. long. 5. 4. W. 
RU'NAGATE, s. [corrupted from renegat, Fr.] A 
fugitive ; rebel: apostate. 
RUNALA, a town of Hindostan, province of Kandeish, 
belonging to the Mahrattas. Lat. 21.17. N. long. 74. 20. E. 
RUNAWAY, s. One that flies from danger; one who 
departs by stealth; a fugitive. 
Comeat once. 
For the close night doth play the runaway. 
And we are staid for. Shakspeare. 
Thou runaway, thou coward art thou fled ? 
Speak in some bush ; where dost thou hide thy head ? 
Shakspeare. 
RUNAWAY BAY, on the north-west coast of the island 
of Antigua, situated between the fort on Corbizon’s point 
to the north, and Fort Hamilton to the south. Off it lie 
rocks and shoals. 
RUNAWAY BAY, on the north coast of the island of 
Jamaica, westward of Great Laughland’s river and Mumby 
bay; 
