Definition of run

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Run (a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly..

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Bacchant :: Bacchant (a.) Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.
Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun..
Trindle :: Trindle (v. t. & n.) See Trundle.
Dream :: Dream (n.) To let the mind run on in idle revery or vagary; to anticipate vaguely as a coming and happy reality; to have a visionary notion or idea; to imagine.
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Truncate :: Truncate (a.) Appearing as if cut off at the tip; as, a truncate leaf or feather..
Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.
Outrun :: Outrun (p. p.) of Outru.
Proboscis :: Proboscis (n.) A hollow organ or tube attached to the head, or connected with the mouth, of various animals, and generally used in taking food or drink; a snout; a trunk..
Malashaganay :: Malashaganay (n.) The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox..
Trunnion :: Trunnion (n.) A cylindrical projection on each side of a piece, whether gun, mortar, or howitzer, serving to support it on the cheeks of the carriage. See Illust. of Cannon..
Overrun :: Overrun (p. p.) of Overru.
Egg-glass :: Egg-glass (n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table..
Run :: Run (a.) Smuggled; as, run goods..
Stagecoachmen :: Stagecoach (n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers..
Runround :: Runround (n.) A felon or whitlow.
Forerun :: Forerun (v. t.) To turn before; to precede; to be in advance of (something following).
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..
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