Definition of run

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Run (a.) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week..

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Counter :: Counter (adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
Drinker :: Drinker (n.) One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard..
Plagal :: Plagal (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave..
Buddle :: Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions..
Rundle :: Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..
Alitrunk :: Alitrunk (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Excurrent :: Excurrent (a.) Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top..
Trunk :: Trunk (n.) The proboscis of an elephant.
Stave :: Stave (n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
Boom :: Boom (n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc..
Antiparallel :: Antiparallel (a.) Running in a contrary direction.
Pack :: Pack (n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater..
Overrun :: Overrun (v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page..
Rune :: Rune (n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
Outrun :: Outrun (v. t.) To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond..
Vinolent :: Vinolent (a.) Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.
Runcinate :: Runcinate (a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion..
Runt :: Runt (a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously..
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