Definition of run

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Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

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Shrunken :: Shrunken () p. p. & a. from Shrink.
Trot :: Trot (n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..
Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
Run :: Run (v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..
Grunter :: Grunter (n.) One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog..
Zigzag :: Zigzag (a.) Having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course..
Shred :: Shred (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
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..
Vinolency :: Vinolency (n.) Drunkennes.
Detruncation :: Detruncation (n.) The act of lopping or cutting off, as the head from the body..
Excursion :: Excursion () A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Gauge :: Gauge (v. t.) To draw into equidistant gathers by running a thread through it, as cloth or a garment..
Squint :: Squint (v. i.) To deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
Trunkback :: Trunkback (n.) The leatherback.
Carthusian :: Carthusian (n.) A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086..
Homodromous :: Homodromous (a.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches..
Gantlet :: Gantlet (n.) A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender was made to run between two files of men facing one another, who struck him as he passed..
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