| slovo | definícia |
running
(mass) | running
- bežiaci, spustený |
running
(encz) | running,běhání n: |
running
(encz) | running,běžící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
running
(encz) | running,chod |
running
(encz) | running,probíhající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
running
(encz) | running,proudící adj: Zdeněk Brož |
running
(encz) | running,průběžný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
running
(encz) | running,tekoucí |
Running
(gcide) | Run \Run\ (r[u^]n), v. i. [imp. Ran (r[a^]n) or Run; p. p.
Run; p. pr. & vb. n. Running.] [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp.
ran, p. p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p.
p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn,
p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen, OS. & OHG. rinnan,
G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, r[aum]nna,
Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to
rise, Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. [.r] (cf.
Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival).
[root]11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet.]
1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly,
smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate
or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a
stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action
than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
Specifically:
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2. Of voluntary or personal action:
(a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
--Chaucer.
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(b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
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As from a bear a man would run for life. --Shak.
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(c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
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(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest;
to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
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Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that
ye may obtain. --1 Cor. ix.
24.
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(e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to
come into a certain condition; -- often with in or
into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
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Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to
rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
--Addison.
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(f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run
through life; to run in a circle.
(g) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as,
to run from one subject to another.
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Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set
of precepts foreign to his subject. --Addison.
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(h) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about
something; -- with on.
(i) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as
upon a bank; -- with on.
(j) To creep, as serpents.
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3. Of involuntary motion:
(a) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course;
as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring;
her blood ran cold.
(b) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
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The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix.
23.
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(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
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As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
--Addison.
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Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
--Woodward.
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(d) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot;
as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
(e) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical
means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to
Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
(f) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from
Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary.
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She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
--Pope.
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(g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as,
the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
(h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
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As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
in most part of our lives that it ran much
faster. --Addison.
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(i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or
motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill
runs six days in the week.
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When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on
the good circumstances of it; when it is
obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
--Swift.
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(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
and west.
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Where the generally allowed practice runs
counter to it. --Locke.
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Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason. --Shak.
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(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our
sovereign lord the king." --Bp.
Sanderson.
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(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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Men gave them their own names, by which they run
a great while in Rome. --Sir W.
Temple.
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Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
himself. --Knolles.
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(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
up rapidly.
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If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
run to leaves. --Mortimer.
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(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
--Bacon.
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Temperate climates run into moderate
governments. --Swift.
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(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
in washing.
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In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
distinguished, but near the borders they run
into one another. --I. Watts.
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(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in
force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in
company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
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Customs run only upon our goods imported or
exported, and that but once for all; whereas
interest runs as well upon our ships as goods,
and must be yearly paid. --Sir J.
Child.
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(q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a
note has thirty days to run.
(r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
(s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days
or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
(t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from
reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
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4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in
which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a
supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are
gathered in the air under the body. --Stillman (The Horse
in Motion).
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5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that
there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches
the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic
competition.
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As things run, according to the usual order, conditions,
quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or
specification.
To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to
slacken or loosen.
To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to
endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
--Locke.
To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without
control or guidance.
To run away with.
(a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or
elopement.
(b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs
away with a carriage.
To run down.
(a) To cease to work or operate on account of the
exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks,
watches, etc.
(b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
To run down a coast, to sail along it.
To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an
office.
To run in or To run into.
(a) To enter; to step in.
(b) To come in collision with.
To run into To meet, by chance; as, I ran into my brother
at the grocery store.
To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]
To run in with.
(a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
(b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
to run in with the land.
To run mad, To run mad after or To run mad on. See
under Mad.
To run on.
(a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
year or two without a settlement.
(b) To talk incessantly.
(c) To continue a course.
(d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
To run out.
(a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
at Michaelmas.
(b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all
out into legs." --Hammond.
(c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
digressions.
(d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
soon run out.
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And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out. --Dryden.
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To run over.
(a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
over.
(b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
(c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
To run riot, to go to excess.
To run through.
(a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
(b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
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But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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To run with.
(a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
streets ran with blood.
(b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
"Its rivers ran with gold." --J. H. Newman.
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Running
(gcide) | Running \Run"ning\, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
(a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running
horse. --Law.
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2. Successive; one following the other without break or
intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away
two days running; to sow land two years running.
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3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest."
--Milton.
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What are art and science if not a running commentary
on Nature? --Hare.
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5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
as, a running vine.
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6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys
which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
lowered.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side
of a locomotive.
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Running
(gcide) | Running \Run"ning\, n.
The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running
was slow.
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2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which
flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as,
the first running of a still.
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3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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running
(wn) | running
adj 1: (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain
stream with freely running water"; "hovels without
running water" [ant: standing(a)]
2: continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke
among us"
3: of advancing the ball by running; "the team's running plays
worked better than its pass plays" [ant: pass(a),
passing(a)]
4: executed or initiated by running; "running plays worked
better than pass plays"; "took a running jump"; "a running
start" [ant: standing(a)]
5: measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" [syn:
linear, running(a)]
6: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in
running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes"
[syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)]
n 1: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to
carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the
defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put
great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, {running
play}, running game]
2: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: run,
running]
3: the state of being in operation; "the engine is running
smoothly"
4: the act of administering or being in charge of something; "he
has responsibility for the running of two companies at the
same time"
5: the act of participating in an athletic competition involving
running on a track [syn: track, running] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
grinning, ducking & running
(msas) | Grinning, Ducking & Running
- GD&R |
grinning, ducking & running
(msasasci) | Grinning, Ducking & Running
- GD&R |
change in balance of receivables from running activities
(encz) | change in balance of receivables from running activities, temporary
assets accounts,změna stavu pohledávek z provozní činnosti, přechodných
účtů aktiv [ekon.] přehled o peněžních tocích/cash flow statement Ivan
Masár |
change in balance of short-term payables from running activities
(encz) | change in balance of short-term payables from running activities,
temporary liability accounts,změna stavu krátkodobých závazků z provozní
činnosti, přechodných účtů pasiv [ekon.] přehled o peněžních tocích/cash
flow statement Ivan Masár |
come running
(encz) | come running,přiběhnout come running,přibíhat |
gunrunning
(encz) | gunrunning,pašování zbraní n: Zdeněk Brož |
hit the ground running
(encz) | hit the ground running, |
in the running
(encz) | in the running, |
income tax for running activities and additional tax assessments for previous periods
(encz) | income tax for running activities and additional tax assessments for
previous periods,zaplacená daň z příjmů za běžnou činnost a doměrky daně
za minulá období [ekon.] přehled o peněžních tocích/cash flow
statement Ivan Masár |
interest running
(encz) | interest running,úročení n: Zdeněk Brož |
long-running
(encz) | long-running,dlouhotrvající adj: Zdeněk Brož |
net cash flow from running activities before taxation and unusual/extraordinary items
(encz) | net cash flow from running activities before taxation and
unusual/extraordinary items,čistý peněžní tok z provozní činnosti před
zdaněním a mimořádnými položkami [ekon.] přehled o peněžních tocích/cash
flow statement Ivan Masár |
overrunning
(encz) | overrunning, |
rerunning
(encz) | rerunning, |
running away
(encz) | running away, n: |
running back
(encz) | running back, n: |
running blackberry
(encz) | running blackberry, n: |
running board
(encz) | running board,stupátko n: u dveří automobilu cryptonomicon |
running chapter
(encz) | running chapter,živé záhlaví s názvem kapitoly web |
running dog
(encz) | running dog,přisluhovač n: Jaromír Hamala |
running game
(encz) | running game, n: |
running hand
(encz) | running hand, n: |
running head
(encz) | running head,živé záhlaví web |
running headline
(encz) | running headline,živé záhlaví web |
running light
(encz) | running light, |
running lights
(encz) | running lights, |
running mate
(encz) | running mate,spolukandidát Zdeněk Brož |
running noose
(encz) | running noose, n: |
running pine
(encz) | running pine, n: |
running play
(encz) | running play, n: |
running pop
(encz) | running pop, n: |
running postman
(encz) | running postman, n: |
running shoe
(encz) | running shoe, n: |
running start
(encz) | running start, n: |
running stitch
(encz) | running stitch, n: |
running suit
(encz) | running suit, n: |
running time
(encz) | running time, n: |
running title
(encz) | running title,živé záhlaví web |
running water
(encz) | running water,tekoucí voda n: Zdeněk Brož |
up and running
(encz) | up and running, |
tears running down my cheeks
(czen) | Tears Running Down My Cheeks,TRDMC[zkr.] |
tears running down my trouser legs
(czen) | Tears Running Down My Trouser Legs,TRDMTL[zkr.] |
At long running
(gcide) | Running \Run"ning\, n.
The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running
was slow.
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2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which
flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as,
the first running of a still.
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3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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Hand running
(gcide) | Hand \Hand\ (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw.
hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h["o]nd, Goth. handus, and
perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. Hunt.]
1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in
man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other
animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
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2. That which resembles, or to some extent performs the
office of, a human hand; as:
(a) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk, or
any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
(b) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute
hand of a clock.
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3. A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a
palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
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4. Side; part; direction, either right or left.
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On this hand and that hand, were hangings. --Ex.
xxxviii. 15.
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The Protestants were then on the winning hand.
--Milton.
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5. Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill;
dexterity.
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He had a great mind to try his hand at a Spectator.
--Addison.
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6. Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence,
manner of performance.
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To change the hand in carrying on the war.
--Clarendon.
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Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by my
hand. --Judges vi.
36.
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7. An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or
competent for special service or duty; a performer more or
less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand
at speaking.
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A dictionary containing a natural history requires
too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be
hoped for. --Locke.
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I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile.
--Hazlitt.
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8. Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad, or
running hand. Hence, a signature.
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I say she never did invent this letter;
This is a man's invention and his hand. --Shak.
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Some writs require a judge's hand. --Burril.
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9. Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction;
management; -- usually in the plural. "Receiving in hand
one year's tribute." --Knolles.
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Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the
government of Britain. --Milton.
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10. Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to
buy at first hand, that is, from the producer, or when
new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the
producer's hand, or when not new.
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11. Rate; price. [Obs.] "Business is bought at a dear hand,
where there is small dispatch." --Bacon.
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12. That which is, or may be, held in a hand at once; as:
(a) (Card Playing) The quota of cards received from the
dealer.
(b) (Tobacco Manuf.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied
together.
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13. (Firearms) The small part of a gunstock near the lock,
which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
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Note: Hand is used figuratively for a large variety of acts
or things, in the doing, or making, or use of which the
hand is in some way employed or concerned; also, as a
symbol to denote various qualities or conditions, as:
(a) Activity; operation; work; -- in distinction from the
head, which implies thought, and the heart, which
implies affection. "His hand will be against every
man." --Gen. xvi. 12.
(b) Power; might; supremacy; -- often in the Scriptures.
"With a mighty hand . . . will I rule over you."
--Ezek. xx. 33.
(c) Fraternal feeling; as, to give, or take, the hand; to
give the right hand.
(d) Contract; -- commonly of marriage; as, to ask the
hand; to pledge the hand.
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Note: Hand is often used adjectively or in compounds (with or
without the hyphen), signifying performed by the hand;
as, hand blow or hand-blow, hand gripe or hand-gripe:
used by, or designed for, the hand; as, hand ball or
handball, hand bow, hand fetter, hand grenade or
hand-grenade, handgun or hand gun, handloom or hand
loom, handmill or hand organ or handorgan, handsaw or
hand saw, hand-weapon: measured or regulated by the
hand; as, handbreadth or hand's breadth, hand gallop or
hand-gallop. Most of the words in the following
paragraph are written either as two words or in
combination.
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Hand bag, a satchel; a small bag for carrying books,
papers, parcels, etc.
Hand basket, a small or portable basket.
Hand bell, a small bell rung by the hand; a table bell.
--Bacon.
Hand bill, a small pruning hook. See 4th Bill.
Hand car. See under Car.
Hand director (Mus.), an instrument to aid in forming a
good position of the hands and arms when playing on the
piano; a hand guide.
Hand drop. See Wrist drop.
Hand gallop. See under Gallop.
Hand gear (Mach.), apparatus by means of which a machine,
or parts of a machine, usually operated by other power,
may be operated by hand.
Hand glass.
(a) A glass or small glazed frame, for the protection of
plants.
(b) A small mirror with a handle.
Hand guide. Same as Hand director (above).
Hand language, the art of conversing by the hands, esp. as
practiced by the deaf and dumb; dactylology.
Hand lathe. See under Lathe.
Hand money, money paid in hand to bind a contract; earnest
money.
Hand organ (Mus.), a barrel organ, operated by a crank
turned by hand.
Hand plant. (Bot.) Same as Hand tree (below). -- {Hand
rail}, a rail, as in staircases, to hold by. --Gwilt.
Hand sail, a sail managed by the hand. --Sir W. Temple.
Hand screen, a small screen to be held in the hand.
Hand screw, a small jack for raising heavy timbers or
weights; (Carp.) a screw clamp.
Hand staff (pl. Hand staves), a javelin. --Ezek. xxxix.
9.
Hand stamp, a small stamp for dating, addressing, or
canceling papers, envelopes, etc.
Hand tree (Bot.), a lofty tree found in Mexico
(Cheirostemon platanoides), having red flowers whose
stamens unite in the form of a hand.
Hand vise, a small vise held in the hand in doing small
work. --Moxon.
Hand work, or Handwork, work done with the hands, as
distinguished from work done by a machine; handiwork.
All hands, everybody; all parties.
At all hands, On all hands, on all sides; from every
direction; generally.
At any hand, At no hand, in any (or no) way or direction;
on any account; on no account. "And therefore at no hand
consisting with the safety and interests of humility."
--Jer. Taylor.
At first hand, At second hand. See def. 10 (above).
At hand.
(a) Near in time or place; either present and within
reach, or not far distant. "Your husband is at hand;
I hear his trumpet." --Shak.
(b) Under the hand or bridle. [Obs.] "Horses hot at
hand." --Shak.
At the hand of, by the act of; as a gift from. "Shall we
receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive
evil?" --Job ii. 10.
Bridle hand. See under Bridle.
By hand, with the hands, in distinction from
instrumentality of tools, engines, or animals; as, to weed
a garden by hand; to lift, draw, or carry by hand.
Clean hands, freedom from guilt, esp. from the guilt of
dishonesty in money matters, or of bribe taking. "He that
hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger." --Job
xvii. 9.
From hand to hand, from one person to another.
Hand in hand.
(a) In union; conjointly; unitedly. --Swift.
(b) Just; fair; equitable.
As fair and as good, a kind of hand in hand
comparison. --Shak.
Hand over hand, Hand over fist, by passing the hands
alternately one before or above another; as, to climb hand
over hand; also, rapidly; as, to come up with a chase hand
over hand.
Hand over head, negligently; rashly; without seeing what
one does. [Obs.] --Bacon.
Hand running, consecutively; as, he won ten times hand
running.
Hands off! keep off! forbear! no interference or meddling!
Hand to hand, in close union; in close fight; as, a hand to
hand contest. --Dryden.
Heavy hand, severity or oppression.
In hand.
(a) Paid down. "A considerable reward in hand, and . . .
a far greater reward hereafter." --Tillotson.
(b) In preparation; taking place. --Chaucer. "Revels . .
. in hand." --Shak.
(c) Under consideration, or in the course of transaction;
as, he has the business in hand.
In one's hand or In one's hands.
(a) In one's possession or keeping.
(b) At one's risk, or peril; as, I took my life in my
hand.
Laying on of hands, a form used in consecrating to office,
in the rite of confirmation, and in blessing persons.
Light hand, gentleness; moderation.
Note of hand, a promissory note.
Off hand, Out of hand, forthwith; without delay,
hesitation, or difficulty; promptly. "She causeth them to
be hanged up out of hand." --Spenser.
Off one's hands, out of one's possession or care.
On hand, in present possession; as, he has a supply of
goods on hand.
On one's hands, in one's possession care, or management.
Putting the hand under the thigh, an ancient Jewish
ceremony used in swearing.
Right hand, the place of honor, power, and strength.
Slack hand, idleness; carelessness; inefficiency; sloth.
Strict hand, severe discipline; rigorous government.
To bear a hand (Naut.), to give help quickly; to hasten.
To bear in hand, to keep in expectation with false
pretenses. [Obs.] --Shak.
To be hand and glove with or To be hand in glove with.
See under Glove.
To be on the mending hand, to be convalescent or improving.
To bring up by hand, to feed (an infant) without suckling
it.
To change hand. See Change.
To change hands, to change sides, or change owners.
--Hudibras.
To clap the hands, to express joy or applause, as by
striking the palms of the hands together.
To come to hand, to be received; to be taken into
possession; as, the letter came to hand yesterday.
To get hand, to gain influence. [Obs.]
Appetites have . . . got such a hand over them.
--Baxter.
To get one's hand in, to make a beginning in a certain
work; to become accustomed to a particular business.
To have a hand in, to be concerned in; to have a part or
concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in.
To have in hand.
(a) To have in one's power or control. --Chaucer.
(b) To be engaged upon or occupied with.
To have one's hands full, to have in hand all that one can
do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed
with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with
difficulties.
To have the (higher) upper hand, or {To get the (higher)
upper hand}, to have, or get, the better of another person or
thing.
To his hand, To my hand, etc., in readiness; already
prepared. "The work is made to his hands." --Locke.
To hold hand, to compete successfully or on even
conditions. [Obs.] --Shak.
To lay hands on, to seize; to assault.
To lend a hand, to give assistance.
To lift the hand against, or {To put forth the hand
against}, to attack; to oppose; to kill.
To live from hand to mouth, to obtain food and other
necessaries as want compels, without previous provision.
To make one's hand, to gain advantage or profit.
To put the hand unto, to steal. --Ex. xxii. 8.
To put the last hand to or To put the finishing hand to,
to make the last corrections in; to complete; to perfect.
To set the hand to, to engage in; to undertake.
That the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that
thou settest thine hand to. --Deut. xxiii.
20.
To stand one in hand, to concern or affect one.
To strike hands, to make a contract, or to become surety
for another's debt or good behavior.
To take in hand.
(a) To attempt or undertake.
(b) To seize and deal with; as, he took him in hand.
To wash the hands of, to disclaim or renounce interest in,
or responsibility for, a person or action; as, to wash
one's hands of a business. --Matt. xxvii. 24.
Under the hand of, authenticated by the handwriting or
signature of; as, the deed is executed under the hand and
seal of the owner.
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Inrunning
(gcide) | Inrunning \In"run`ning\, n.
The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. --Tennyson.
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Outrunning
(gcide) | Outrun \Out*run"\, v. t. [imp. Outran; p. p. Outrun; p. pr.
& vb. n. Outrunning.]
To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than;
to outstrip; to go beyond.
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Your zeal outruns my wishes. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to
the sepulcher. --John xx. 4.
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Overrunning
(gcide) | Overrun \O`ver*run"\, v. t. [imp. Overran; p. p. Overrun; p.
pr. & vb. n. Overrunning. ]
1. To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade
and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran
its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
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Those barbarous nations that overran the world.
--Spenser.
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2. To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or
pass in running.
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Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran
Cushi. --2 Sam.
xviii. 23.
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3. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line
overruns another in length.
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Note: In machinery, a sliding piece is said to overrun its
bearing when its forward end goes beyond it.
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4. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
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None of them the feeble overran. --Spenser.
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5. (Print.)
(a) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page
into the next after, or next before.
(b) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page)
into the next line, column, or page.
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Right-running
(gcide) | Right-running \Right"-run`ning\, a.
Straight; direct.
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Running
(gcide) | Run \Run\ (r[u^]n), v. i. [imp. Ran (r[a^]n) or Run; p. p.
Run; p. pr. & vb. n. Running.] [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp.
ran, p. p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p.
p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn,
p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen, OS. & OHG. rinnan,
G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, r[aum]nna,
Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to
rise, Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. [.r] (cf.
Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival).
[root]11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet.]
1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly,
smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate
or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a
stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action
than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
Specifically:
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2. Of voluntary or personal action:
(a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
--Chaucer.
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(b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
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As from a bear a man would run for life. --Shak.
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(c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
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(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest;
to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
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Know ye not that they which run in a race run
all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that
ye may obtain. --1 Cor. ix.
24.
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(e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to
come into a certain condition; -- often with in or
into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
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Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to
rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
--Addison.
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(f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run
through life; to run in a circle.
(g) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as,
to run from one subject to another.
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Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set
of precepts foreign to his subject. --Addison.
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(h) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about
something; -- with on.
(i) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as
upon a bank; -- with on.
(j) To creep, as serpents.
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3. Of involuntary motion:
(a) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course;
as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring;
her blood ran cold.
(b) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
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The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix.
23.
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(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
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As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
--Addison.
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Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
--Woodward.
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(d) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot;
as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
(e) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical
means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to
Albany; the train runs to Chicago.
(f) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from
Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary.
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She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
--Pope.
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(g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as,
the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
(h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
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As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
in most part of our lives that it ran much
faster. --Addison.
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(i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or
motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill
runs six days in the week.
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When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on
the good circumstances of it; when it is
obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
--Swift.
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(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
and west.
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Where the generally allowed practice runs
counter to it. --Locke.
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Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason. --Shak.
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(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our
sovereign lord the king." --Bp.
Sanderson.
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(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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Men gave them their own names, by which they run
a great while in Rome. --Sir W.
Temple.
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Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
himself. --Knolles.
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(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
up rapidly.
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If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
run to leaves. --Mortimer.
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(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
--Bacon.
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Temperate climates run into moderate
governments. --Swift.
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(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
in washing.
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In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
distinguished, but near the borders they run
into one another. --I. Watts.
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(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in
force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in
company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
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Customs run only upon our goods imported or
exported, and that but once for all; whereas
interest runs as well upon our ships as goods,
and must be yearly paid. --Sir J.
Child.
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(q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a
note has thirty days to run.
(r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
(s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days
or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
(t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from
reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
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4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in
which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a
supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are
gathered in the air under the body. --Stillman (The Horse
in Motion).
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5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that
there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches
the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic
competition.
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As things run, according to the usual order, conditions,
quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or
specification.
To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to
slacken or loosen.
To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to
endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
--Locke.
To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without
control or guidance.
To run away with.
(a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or
elopement.
(b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs
away with a carriage.
To run down.
(a) To cease to work or operate on account of the
exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks,
watches, etc.
(b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
To run down a coast, to sail along it.
To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an
office.
To run in or To run into.
(a) To enter; to step in.
(b) To come in collision with.
To run into To meet, by chance; as, I ran into my brother
at the grocery store.
To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]
To run in with.
(a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
(b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
to run in with the land.
To run mad, To run mad after or To run mad on. See
under Mad.
To run on.
(a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
year or two without a settlement.
(b) To talk incessantly.
(c) To continue a course.
(d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
To run out.
(a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
at Michaelmas.
(b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all
out into legs." --Hammond.
(c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
digressions.
(d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
soon run out.
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And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out. --Dryden.
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To run over.
(a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
over.
(b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
(c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
To run riot, to go to excess.
To run through.
(a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
(b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
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But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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To run with.
(a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
streets ran with blood.
(b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
"Its rivers ran with gold." --J. H. Newman.
[1913 Webster]Running \Run"ning\, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
(a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running
horse. --Law.
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2. Successive; one following the other without break or
intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away
two days running; to sow land two years running.
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3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest."
--Milton.
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What are art and science if not a running commentary
on Nature? --Hare.
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5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
as, a running vine.
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6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys
which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
lowered.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side
of a locomotive.
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The act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running
was slow.
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2. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which
flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as,
the first running of a still.
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3. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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At long running, in the long run. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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(gcide) | Running \Run"ning\, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
(a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running
horse. --Law.
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2. Successive; one following the other without break or
intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away
two days running; to sow land two years running.
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3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest."
--Milton.
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What are art and science if not a running commentary
on Nature? --Hare.
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5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
as, a running vine.
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6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys
which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
lowered.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side
of a locomotive.
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Running board
(gcide) | Running \Run"ning\, a.
1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
(a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
(b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running
horse. --Law.
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2. Successive; one following the other without break or
intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away
two days running; to sow land two years running.
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3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
facts with a running explanation. "A running conquest."
--Milton.
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What are art and science if not a running commentary
on Nature? --Hare.
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5. (Bot.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
as, a running vine.
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6. (Med.) Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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Running block (Mech.), a block in an arrangement of pulleys
which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
lowered.
Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side
of a locomotive.
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Running fight
(gcide) | Fight \Fight\, n. [OE. fight, feht, AS. feoht. See Fight, v.
i.]
1. A battle; an engagement; a contest in arms; a combat; a
violent conflict or struggle for victory, between
individuals or between armies, ships, or navies, etc.
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Who now defies thee thrice to single fight.
--Milton.
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2. A struggle or contest of any kind.
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3. Strength or disposition for fighting; pugnacity; as, he
has a great deal of fight in him. [Colloq.]
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4. A screen for the combatants in ships. [Obs.]
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Up with your fights, and your nettings prepare.
--Dryden.
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Running fight, a fight in which the enemy is continually
chased; also, one which continues without definite end or
result.
Syn: Combat; engagement; contest; struggle; encounter; fray;
affray; action; conflict. See Battle.
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Running fire
(gcide) | Fire \Fire\ (f[imac]r), n. [OE. fir, fyr, fur AS. f[=y]r; akin
to D. vuur, OS. & OHG. fiur, G. feuer, Icel. f[=y]ri,
f[=u]rr, Gr. py^r, and perh. to L. purus pure, E. pure Cf.
Empyrean, Pyre.]
1. The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of
bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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Note: The form of fire exhibited in the combustion of gases
in an ascending stream or current is called flame.
Anciently, fire, air, earth, and water were regarded as
the four elements of which all things are composed.
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2. Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a
stove or a furnace.
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3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
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4. Anything which destroys or affects like fire.
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5. Ardor of passion, whether love or hate; excessive warmth;
consuming violence of temper.
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he had fire in his temper. --Atterbury.
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6. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral
enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal.
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And bless their critic with a poet's fire. --Pope.
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7. Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star.
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Stars, hide your fires. --Shak.
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As in a zodiac
representing the heavenly fires. --Milton.
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8. Torture by burning; severe trial or affliction.
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9. The discharge of firearms; firing; as, the troops were
exposed to a heavy fire.
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Blue fire, Red fire, Green fire (Pyrotech.),
compositions of various combustible substances, as
sulphur, niter, lampblack, etc., the flames of which are
colored by various metallic salts, as those of antimony,
strontium, barium, etc.
Fire alarm
(a) A signal given on the breaking out of a fire.
(b) An apparatus for giving such an alarm.
Fire annihilator, a machine, device, or preparation to be
kept at hand for extinguishing fire by smothering it with
some incombustible vapor or gas, as carbonic acid.
Fire balloon.
(a) A balloon raised in the air by the buoyancy of air
heated by a fire placed in the lower part.
(b) A balloon sent up at night with fireworks which ignite
at a regulated height. --Simmonds.
Fire bar, a grate bar.
Fire basket, a portable grate; a cresset. --Knight.
Fire beetle. (Zool.) See in the Vocabulary.
Fire blast, a disease of plants which causes them to appear
as if burnt by fire.
Fire box, the chamber of a furnace, steam boiler, etc., for
the fire.
Fire brick, a refractory brick, capable of sustaining
intense heat without fusion, usually made of fire clay or
of siliceous material, with some cementing substance, and
used for lining fire boxes, etc.
Fire brigade, an organized body of men for extinguished
fires.
Fire bucket. See under Bucket.
Fire bug, an incendiary; one who, from malice or through
mania, persistently sets fire to property; a pyromaniac.
[U.S.]
Fire clay. See under Clay.
Fire company, a company of men managing an engine in
extinguishing fires.
Fire cross. See Fiery cross. [Obs.] --Milton.
Fire damp. See under Damp.
Fire dog. See Firedog, in the Vocabulary.
Fire drill.
(a) A series of evolutions performed by fireman for
practice.
(b) An apparatus for producing fire by friction, by
rapidly twirling a wooden pin in a wooden socket; --
used by the Hindoos during all historic time, and by
many savage peoples.
Fire eater.
(a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire.
(b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur.
[Colloq.]
Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels,
for throwing water to extinguish fire.
Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from
burning buildings.
Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam
of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off
afterward by heat.
Fire gilt (Fine Arts), gold laid on by the process of fire
gilding.
Fire insurance, the act or system of insuring against fire;
also, a contract by which an insurance company undertakes,
in consideration of the payment of a premium or small
percentage -- usually made periodically -- to indemnify an
owner of property from loss by fire during a specified
period.
Fire irons, utensils for a fireplace or grate, as tongs,
poker, and shovel.
Fire main, a pipe for water, to be used in putting out
fire.
Fire master
(Mil), an artillery officer who formerly supervised the
composition of fireworks.
Fire office, an office at which to effect insurance against
fire.
Fire opal, a variety of opal giving firelike reflections.
Fire ordeal, an ancient mode of trial, in which the test
was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon
red-hot irons. --Abbot.
Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially
the receptacle for the priming of a gun.
Fire plug, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the
main pipes in a street, building, etc., for extinguishing
fires.
Fire policy, the writing or instrument expressing the
contract of insurance against loss by fire.
Fire pot.
(a) (Mil.) A small earthen pot filled with combustibles,
formerly used as a missile in war.
(b) The cast iron vessel which holds the fuel or fire in a
furnace.
(c) A crucible.
(d) A solderer's furnace.
Fire raft, a raft laden with combustibles, used for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to
their quarters in case of fire.
Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking
the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by
exposing it to the action of fire; -- now generally
superseded by the use of explosives. --Raymond.
Fire ship, a vessel filled with combustibles, for setting
fire to an enemy's ships.
Fire shovel, a shovel for taking up coals of fire.
Fire stink, the stench from decomposing iron pyrites,
caused by the formation of hydrogen sulfide. --Raymond.
Fire surface, the surfaces of a steam boiler which are
exposed to the direct heat of the fuel and the products of
combustion; heating surface.
Fire swab, a swab saturated with water, for cooling a gun
in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc.
--Farrow.
Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine.
Fire water, a strong alcoholic beverage; -- so called by
the American Indians.
Fire worship, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly
in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, called
Chebers, or Guebers, and among the Parsees of India.
Greek fire. See under Greek.
On fire, burning; hence, ardent; passionate; eager;
zealous.
Running fire, the rapid discharge of firearms in succession
by a line of troops.
St. Anthony's fire, erysipelas; -- an eruptive fever which
St. Anthony was supposed to cure miraculously. --Hoblyn.
St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint Elmo.
To set on fire, to inflame; to kindle.
To take fire, to begin to burn; to fly into a passion.
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Running gear
(gcide) | Gear \Gear\ (g[=e]r), n. [OE. gere, ger, AS. gearwe clothing,
adornment, armor, fr. gearo, gearu, ready, yare; akin to OHG.
garaw[imac], garw[imac] ornament, dress. See Yare, and cf.
Garb dress.]
1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
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Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear. --Spenser.
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2. Goods; property; household stuff. --Chaucer.
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Homely gear and common ware. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
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3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff
or material.
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Clad in a vesture of unknown gear. --Spenser.
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4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
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5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
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Thus go they both together to their gear. --Spenser.
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8. (Mech.)
(a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a
bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively.
(b) An apparatus for performing a special function;
gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.
(c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out
of gear.
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9. pl. (Naut.) See 1st Jeer
(b) .
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10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or
Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
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That servant of his that confessed and uttered this
gear was an honest man. --Latimer.
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Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See {Mortise
wheel}, under Mortise.
Expansion gear (Steam Engine), the arrangement of parts for
cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as
to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the
cut-off. See under Expansion.
Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of
gear wheels by cutting.
Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
Running gear. See under Running.
To throw in gear or To throw out of gear (Mach.), to
connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to
put in, or out of, working relation.
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Running load
(gcide) | Running load \Run"ning load\ (Aeronautics)
(a) The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot
segment of a wing.
(b) Commonly, the whole weight of aeroplane and load
divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
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Running rigging
(gcide) | Rigging \Rig"ging\, n.
Dress; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc.,
that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as
purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of
Ship and Sails.
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Running rigging (Naut.), all those ropes used in bracing
the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as
braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like.
Standing rigging (Naut.), the shrouds and stays.
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Runningly
(gcide) | Runningly \Run"ning*ly\, adv.
In a running manner.
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To overhaul running rigging
(gcide) | Overhaul \O`ver*haul"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overhauled; p. pr.
& vb. n. Overhauling.]
1. To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination;
to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to
corrections or repairs.
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2. (Naut.) To gain upon in a chase; to overtake.
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3. To repair thoroughly; to make repairs on; -- usually
implying major repairs and perhaps modifying improvements.
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To overhaul a tackle, to pull on the leading parts so as to
separate the blocks.
To overhaul running rigging, to keep it clear, and see that
no hitch occurs.
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gunrunning
(wn) | gunrunning
n 1: the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country
secretly and illegally |
running away
(wn) | running away
n 1: the act of leaving (without permission) the place you are
expected to be |
running back
(wn) | running back
n 1: (football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or
halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on
plays from the line of scrimmage |
running blackberry
(wn) | running blackberry
n 1: any of several trailing blackberry brambles especially of
North America [syn: dewberry, dewberry bush, {running
blackberry}] |
running board
(wn) | running board
n 1: a narrow footboard serving as a step beneath the doors of
some old cars |
running game
(wn) | running game
n 1: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to
carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the
defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put
great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, {running
play}, running game] |
running hand
(wn) | running hand
n 1: rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and
are cursively connected within words without lifting the
writing implement from the paper [syn: longhand, {running
hand}, cursive, cursive script] |
running head
(wn) | running head
n 1: a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other
page) of a book [syn: running head, running headline] |
running headline
(wn) | running headline
n 1: a heading printed at the top of every page (or every other
page) of a book [syn: running head, running headline] |
running light
(wn) | running light
n 1: light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's
direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port
bow and a green light on the starboard bow [syn:
sidelight, running light] |
running mate
(wn) | running mate
n 1: a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political
offices |
running noose
(wn) | running noose
n 1: a loop formed in a cord or rope by means of a slipknot; it
binds tighter as the cord or rope is pulled [syn: noose,
running noose, slip noose] |
running pine
(wn) | running pine
n 1: a variety of club moss [syn: running pine, {Lycopodium
clavitum}] |
running play
(wn) | running play
n 1: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to
carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the
defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put
great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, {running
play}, running game] |
running pop
(wn) | running pop
n 1: tropical American passion flower with finely dissected
bracts; stems malodorous when crushed [syn: {love-in-a-
mist}, running pop, wild water lemon, {Passiflora
foetida}] |
running postman
(wn) | running postman
n 1: hairy trailing or prostrate western Australian vine with
bright scarlet-pink flowers [syn: scarlet runner,
running postman, Kennedia prostrata] |
running shoe
(wn) | running shoe
n 1: a light comfortable shoe designed for running |
running start
(wn) | running start
n 1: a racing start in which the contestants are already in full
motion when they pass the starting line [syn: {flying
start}, running start]
2: a quick and auspicious beginning [syn: flying start,
running start] |
running stitch
(wn) | running stitch
n 1: small, even, hand stitches run in and out |
running suit
(wn) | running suit
n 1: a matching jacket and pants worn by joggers and made of
fabric that absorbs perspiration |
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