Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 87
Run (v. i.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome. -- Sir W. Temple.
Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. -- Knolles.
Run (v. i.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. -- Mortimer.
Run (v. i.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. -- Bacon.
Temperate climates run into moderate governments. -- Swift.
Run (v. i.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. -- I. Watts.
Run (v. i.) 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.
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.
Run (v. i.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
Run (v. i.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
Run (v. i.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
Run (v. i.) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
Run (v. i.) 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).
Run (v. i.) (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.
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.
To run away with. (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.
To run down. (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.
To run in or To run into. (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.
To run in with. (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.
To run on. (b) To talk incessantly.
To run on. (c) To continue a course.
To run on. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on.
To run 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.
To run out. (b) To extend; to spread. "Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs." -- Hammond.
To run out. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions.
To run out. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soon run out.
And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out. -- Dryden.
To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over.
To run over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
To run over. (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.
To run through. (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.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. -- Sir W. Scott.
To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the streets ran with blood.
To run with. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance. "Its rivers ran with gold." -- J. H. Newman.
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.
Run (v. t.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To run the world back to its first original. -- South.
I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its "punctum saliens." -- Collier.
Run (v. t.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
You run your head into the lion's mouth. -- Sir W. Scott.
Having run his fingers through his hair. -- Dickens.
Run (v. t.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
They ran the ship aground. -- Acts xxvii. 41.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets. -- Ray.
Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. -- Locke.
Run (v. t.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
The purest gold must be run and washed. -- Felton.
Run (v. t.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
Run (v. t.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of running goods. -- Swift.
Run (v. t.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
Run (v. t.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [Colloq. U.S.]
Run (v. t.) 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.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. -- Dan Quail
Run (v. t.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. -- Clarendon.
Run (v. t.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. -- Shak.
Run (v. t.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
Run (v. t.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]
Run (v. t.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]
Run (v. t.) 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.
Run (v. t.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
Run (v. t.) (Golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
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.
To run down. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
To run down. (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. "Religion is run down by the license of these times." -- Berkeley.
To run down. (d) To disparage; to traduce. -- F. W. Newman.
To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race.
To run hard. (b) To urge or press importunately.
To run hard. (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.
Run (n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
Run (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.
Run (n.) That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard.
Run (n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.
They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their calamities. -- Burke.
Run (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. -- Addison.
Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense run. -- Macaulay.
Run (n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run. -- Howitt.
Run (n.) (Naut.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
Run (n.) (Naut.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
Run (n.) (Naut.) A voyage;
as, a run to
Run (n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip. [Colloq.]
I think of giving her a run in London. -- Dickens.
Run (n.) (Mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
Run (n.) (Mus.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
Run (n.) (Mil.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
Run (n.) The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
Run (n.) (Sport) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one point; also, the point thus scored; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs; the Yankees scored three runs in the seventh inning.
The "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run. -- R. A. Proctor.
Run (n.) A pair or set of millstones.
Run (n.) (Piquet, Cribbage, etc.) A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.
Run (n.) (Golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running.
Run (n.) (Golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
At the long run, now, commonly, In the long run, in or during the whole process or course of things taken together; in the final result; in the end; finally.
[Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run. -- J. H. Newman.
Home run. (a) A running or returning toward home, or to the point from which the start was made. Cf. Home stretch.
Home run. (b) (Baseball) See under Home.
The run, or The common run, or The run of the mill etc., Ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind.
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. -- Walpole.
Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. -- Prof. Wilson.
His whole appearance was something out of the common run. -- W. Irving.
To let go by the run (Naut.), To loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail.
Run (a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
Run (a.) Smuggled; as, run goods. [Colloq.] -- Miss Edgeworth.
Run steel, Malleable iron castings. See under Malleable. -- Raymond.
Compare: All fours
All fours, () All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person.
To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), To be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." -- Macaulay.
Run (n.) A score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: run, tally].
Run (n.) The act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run].
Run (n.) A race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile run" [syn: footrace, foot race, run].
Run (n.) An unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: streak, run].
Run (n.) (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].
Run (n.) A regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time".
Run (n.) 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].
Run (n.) The continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation; "the assembly line was on a 12-hour run".
Run (n.) Unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house".
Run (n.) The production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.); "a daily run of 100,000 gallons of paint".
Run (n.) A small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet].
Run (n.) A race between candidates for elective office; "I managed his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a Senate run" [syn: political campaign, campaign, run].
Run (n.) A row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking" [syn: run, ladder, ravel].
Run (n.) The pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge, outpouring, run].
Run (n.) An unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories".
Run (n.) A short trip; "take a run into town".
Run (v.) Move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath"; "The children ran to the store".
Run (v.) Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away].
Run (v.) Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [syn: run, go, pass, lead, extend].
Run (v.) Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate, run].
Run (v.) Have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: run, go].
Run (v.) Move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: run, flow, feed, course].
Run (v.) Perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction].
Run (v.) Change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion"; "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students range from very bright to dull" [syn: range, run].
Run (v.) Run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's running for treasurer this year?" [syn: campaign, run].
Run (v.) Cause to emit recorded audio or video; "They ran the tapes over and over again"; "I'll play you my favorite record"; "He never tires of playing that video" [syn: play, run].
Run (v.) Move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these people running around in the building?"; "She runs around telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run free"
Run (v.) Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence" [syn: tend, be given, lean, incline, run].
Run (v.) Be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still running--turn it off!" [ant: idle, tick over].
Run (v.) Change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot".
Run (v.) Cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process".
Run (v.) Be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a risk".
Run (v.) Continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, run, endure].
Run (v.) Occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family".
Run (v.) Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" [syn: run, execute].
Run (v.) Include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" [syn: carry, run].
Run (v.) Carry out; "run an errand".
Run (v.) Pass over, across, or through; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, run, draw, pass].
Run (v.) Cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire behind the cabinet" [syn: run, lead].
Run (v.) Make without a miss.
Run (v.) Deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: run, black market].
Run (v.) Cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs".
Run (v.) Be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to run" [syn: run, bleed].
Run (v.) Sail before the wind.
Run (v.) Cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles that day".
Run (v.) Extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film runs 5 hours" [syn: run, run for].
Run (v.) Set animals loose to graze.
Run (v.) Keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring" [syn: run, consort].
Run (v.) Run with the ball; in such sports as football.
Run (v.) Travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a lover there".
Run (v.) Travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the coast" [syn: ply, run].
Run (v.) Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt, run, hunt down, track down].
Run (v.) Compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year"; "let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: race, run].
Run (v.) Progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" [syn: move, go, run].
Run (v.) Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" [syn: melt, run, melt down].
Run (v.) Come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were running" [syn: ladder, run].
Run (v.) Become undone; "the sweater unraveled" [syn: run, unravel].
Execution
Execute
Run, () The process of carrying out the instructions in a computer program by a computer.
See also dry run. (1996-05-13)
Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. -- Bunyan.
Wretched runagates from the jail. -- De Quincey.
Who has not been a runagate from duty? -- Hare.
Runaway (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled? -- Shak.
Runaway (n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.
Runaway (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.
Runaway (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.
Runaway (a.) Completely out of control; "runaway inflation".
Runaway (n.) An easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, romp, laugher, shoo-in, walkaway].
Runaway (n.) Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops" [syn: fugitive, runaway, fleer].
Runaway (a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.
Runaway (a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.
Runcation (n.) A weeding. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Runch (n.) (Bot.) The wild radish. -- Dr. Prior.
Runch (n.) Eurasian weed having yellow or mauve or white flowers and podlike fruits [syn: jointed charlock, wild radish, wild rape, runch, Raphanus raphanistrum].
Runcinate (a.) (Bot.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
Runcinate (a.) Having incised margins with the lobes or teeth pointing toward the base; as dandelion leaves.
Rundel (n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Rundel (n.) A circle. [Prov. Eng.]
Rundle (n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. -- Duppa.
Rundle (n.) A ball. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Rundle (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. "An axis or cylinder having a rundle about it." -- Bp. Wilkins.
Rundle (n.) (Mach.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Rundle (n.) One of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn: rundle, spoke, rung].
Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 141/2 gallons. [Written also runlet.]
Rune (n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.
Note: The Norsemen had a peculiar alphabet, consisting of sixteen letters, or characters, called runes, the origin of which is lost in the remotest antiquity. The signification of the word rune (mystery) seems to allude to the fact that originally only a few were acquainted with the use of these marks, and that they were mostly applied to secret tricks, witchcrafts and enchantments. But the runes were also used in communication by writing.
Rune (n.) pl. Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.
Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword. -- Longfellow.
Rune stone, A stone bearing a runic inscription.
Rune (n.) Any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages; "each rune had its own magical significance" [syn: rune, runic letter].
Runer (n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. -- Sir W. Temple.
Rung () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
Rung (n.) (Shipbuilding) A floor timber in a ship.
Rung (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
Rung (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
Rung (n.) (Mach.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
Compare: Ring
Ring (v. t.) [imp. Rang (r[a^]ng) or Rung (r[u^]ng); p. p. Rung; p. pr. & vb. n. Ringing.] To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.
Ring (v. t.) To make (a sound), as by ringing a bell; to sound.
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. -- Shak.
Ring (v. t.) To repeat often, loudly, or earnestly.
To ring a peal, To ring a set of changes on a chime of bells.
To ring the changes upon. See under Change.
To ring in or To ring out, To usher, attend on, or celebrate, by the ringing of bells; as, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. -- Tennyson.
To ring the bells backward, To sound the chimes, reversing the common order; -- formerly done as a signal of alarm or danger. -- Sir W. Scott.
Rung (n.) A crosspiece between the legs of a chair [syn: rung, round, stave].
Rung (n.) One of the crosspieces that form the steps of a ladder [syn: rundle, spoke, rung].
Runghead (n.) (Shipbuilding) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.
Runic (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.
Runic staff. See Clog almanac, under Clog.
Runic wand, A willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe in magical ceremonies.
Runic (a.) Relating to or consisting of runes; "runic inscription".
Runic (a.)
Syn. obscure. VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as ?Runix?; Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to ?Very Messy Syntax? or ?Vachement Mauvais Syst?me? (French idiom, ?Hugely Bad System?).
Runic, () Obscure, consisting of runes.
VMS fans sometimes refer to Unix as "RUnix". Unix fans return the compliment by expanding VMS to "Very Messy Syntax" or "Vachement Mauvais Systeme" (French; literally "Cowlike Bad System", idiomatically "Bitchy Bad System").
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Compare: Rundlet
Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 141/2 gallons. [Written also runlet.]
Runlet (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.
To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. -- Lowell.
Runlet (n.) Same as Rundlet. "A stoup of sack, or a runlet of canary." -- Sir W. Scott.
Runnel (n.) A rivulet or small brook.
Bubbling runnels joined the sound. -- Collins.
By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. -- Masson.
Runnel (n.) A small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet].
Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
Runner (n.) A detective. [Slang, Eng.] -- Dickens.
Runner (n.) A messenger. -- Swift.
Runner (n.) A smuggler. [Colloq.] -- R. North.
Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
Runner (n.) (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
Runner (n.) (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. -- Totten.
Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Runner (n.) (Founding) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
Runner (n.) (Founding) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Runner (n.) (Zool.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
Runner (n.) (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
Runner (n.) (Mech.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Runner (n.) (Mech.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Runner (n.) Someone who imports or exports without paying duties [syn: smuggler, runner, contrabandist, moon curser, moon-curser]
Runner (n.) Someone who travels on foot by running.
Runner (n.) A person who is employed to deliver messages or documents; "he sent a runner over with the contract".
Runner (n.) A baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base) [syn: base runner, runner].
Runner (n.) A horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips [syn: stolon, runner, offset].
Runner (n.) A trained athlete who competes in foot races.
Runner (n.) (Football) The player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play [syn: ball carrier, runner].
Runner (n.) A long narrow carpet.
Runner (n.) 9: Device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along.
Runner (n.) 10: Fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil [syn: runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos].
Runnet (n.) See Rennet.
Compare: Rennet
Rennet (n.) The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant.
Rennet (n.) An infusion or preparation of the calf stomach lining, used for coagulating milk. The active principle in this coagulating action is the enzyme rennin. [Written also runnet.]
Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese.
Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), The enzyme rennin, present in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling milk. The enzyme presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form.
Rennet stomach (Anat.), The fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.
Running (a.) Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse:
Running (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Running (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. -- Law.
Running (a.) 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.
Running (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.