Definition of run

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Run (a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels..

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Aorta :: Aorta (n.) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
Node :: Node (n.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode..
Donax :: Donax (n.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc..
Truncheoned :: Truncheoned (a.) Having a truncheon.
Strang :: Strand (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.
Sprit :: Sprinter (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter..
Tippling-house :: Tippling-house (n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises..
Pungled :: Pungled (a.) Shriveled or shrunken; -- said especially of grain which has lost its juices from the ravages of insects, such as the wheat midge, or Trips (Thrips cerealium)..
Run :: Run (a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short distance measured at right angles from a line actually run to some point in an irregular boundary, or to some object..
Arundelian :: Arundelian (a.) Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624..
Healall :: Healall (n.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea..
Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..
Propagulum :: Propagulum (n.) A runner terminated by a germinating bud.
Ront :: Ront (n.) A runt.
Sleet :: Sleet (n.) The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Arundiferous :: Arundiferous (a.) Producing reeds or canes.
Break :: Break (v. i.) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait; as, to break into a run or gallop..
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