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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Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment..
Venantes :: Venantes (n. pl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey..
Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
Fiddlestick :: Fiddlestick (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow..
Quilting :: Quilting (n.) The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt..
Tag :: Tag (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched..
Eddy :: Eddy (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current..
Score :: Score (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining..
Decurrence :: Decurrence (n.) The act of running down; a lapse.
Runghead :: Runghead (n.) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Insobriety :: Insobriety (n.) Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness..
Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..
Leg :: Leg (v. t.) To run.
Run :: Run (a.) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on..
Rundlet :: Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons..
Drunkenship :: Drunkenship (n.) Alt. of Drunkshi.
Carthusian :: Carthusian (n.) A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086..
Stump :: Stump (n.) The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
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