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To run a blockade
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Run \Run\, v. t.
1. 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.
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2. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
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To run the world back to its first original.
--South.
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I would gladly understand the formation of a soul,
and run it up to its "punctum saliens." --Collier.
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3. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or
through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
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You run your head into the lion's mouth. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Having run his fingers through his hair. --Dickens.
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4. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
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They ran the ship aground. --Acts xxvii.
41.
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A talkative person runs himself upon great
inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's
secrets. --Ray.
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Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run
natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
--Locke.
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5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets,
and the like.
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The purest gold must be run and washed. --Felton.
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6. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to
determine; as, to run a line.
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7. To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to
smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
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Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of
running goods. --Swift.
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8. To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race;
to run a certain career.
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9. To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support
for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [Colloq.
U.S.]
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10. To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run
the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances,
below. "He runneth two dangers." --Bacon.
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
--Dan Quail
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11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
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He would himself be in the Highlands to receive
them, and run his fortune with them. --Clarendon.
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12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be
bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
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At the base of Pompey's statua,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
--Shak.
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13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing;
as, the rivers ran blood.
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14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory
or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]
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15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]
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16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material
in a continuous line, generally taking a series of
stitches on the needle at the same time.
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17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to
ascend a river in order to spawn.
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18. (Golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it
to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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To run a blockade, to get to, or away from, a blockaded
port in safety.

To run down.
(a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is
captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag.
(b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
(c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. "Religion is run
down by the license of these times." --Berkeley.
(d) To disparage; to traduce. --F. W. Newman.

To run hard.
(a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a
race.
(b) To urge or press importunately.
(c) To banter severely.

To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to
overdo. [Slang, U.S.]
(c) To erect hastily, as a building.
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