Definition of run

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Run (v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel..

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Untrunked :: Untrunked (a.) Separated from its trunk or stock.
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..
Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..
Run :: Run (a.) To creep, as serpents..
Gimp :: Gimp (n.) A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc..
Parallel :: Parallel (a.) Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
Grunter :: Grunter (n.) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
Run :: Run (n.) A roulade, or series of running tones..
Range :: Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast..
Runner :: Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc..
Toast :: Toast (v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as The land we live in, The day we celebrate, etc..
Rung :: Rung (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel..
Run :: Run (v. t.) To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block..
Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
Cursive :: Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial..
Healall :: Healall (n.) A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run..
Gossip :: Gossip (v. i.) To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Lope :: Lope (n.) An easy gait, consisting of long running strides or leaps..
Tubfish :: Tubfish (n.) The sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). See Illust. under Gurnard.
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