Rumble Rum"ble intransitive verb [ Middle English romblen , akin to Dutch rommelen , German rumpeln , Danish rumle ; confer Icelandic rymja to roar.] 1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.

In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore.

Surrey.

The people cried and rombled up and down.

Chaucer.

2. To murmur; to ripple.

To rumble gently down with murmur soft.

Spenser.

Rumble Rum"ble noun 1. A noisy report; rumor. [ Obsolete]

Delighting ever in rumble that is new.

Chaucer.

2. A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.

Clamor and rumble , and ringing and clatter.

Tennyson.

Merged in the rumble of awakening day.

H. James.

3. A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.

Kit, well wrapped, . . . was in the rumble behind.

Dickens.

4. A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.

Rumble Rum"ble transitive verb To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble , noun , 4.

Rumbler Rum"bler noun One who, or that which, rumbles.

Rumbling Rum"bling adjective & noun from Rumble , intransitive verb

Rumblingly Rum"bling·ly adverb In a rumbling manner.

Rumbo Rum"bo noun Grog. [ Obsolete] Sir W. Scott.

Rumbowline Rum·bow"line noun (Nautical) Same as Rombowline .

Rumen Ru"men noun [ Latin rumen , - inis , the throat.] 1. (Anat.) The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.

2. The cud of a ruminant.

Rumicin Ru"mi·cin noun (Chemistry) A yellow crystalline substance found in the root of yellow dock ( Rumex crispus ) and identical with chrysophanic acid .

Ruminal Rumi·nal adjective [ Latin ruminalis .] (Zoology) Ruminant; ruminating. [ R.]

Ruminant Ru"mi·nant adjective [ Latin ruminans , -antis , present participle: confer French ruminant . See Ruminate .] (Zoology) Chewing the cud; characterized by chewing again what has been swallowed; of or pertaining to the Ruminantia.

Ruminant Ru"mi·nant noun (Zoology) A ruminant animal; one of the Ruminantia.

Ruminantia Ru`mi·nan"ti·a noun plural [ New Latin ] (Zoology) A division of Artiodactyla having four stomachs. This division includes the camels, deer, antelopes, goats, sheep, neat cattle, and allies.

» The vegetable food, after the first mastication, enters the first stomach ( r ). It afterwards passes into the second ( n ), where it is moistened, and formed into pellets which the animal has the power of bringing back to the mouth to be chewed again, after which it is swallowed into the third stomach ( m ), whence it passes to the fourth ( s ), where it is finally digested.

Ruminantly Ru"mi·nant·ly adverb In a ruminant manner; by ruminating, or chewing the cud.

Ruminate Ru"mi·nate intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Ruminated ; present participle & verbal noun Ruminating .] [ Latin ruminatus , past participle of ruminari , ruminare , from rumen , -inis , throat, akin to ructare to belch, erugere to belch out, Greek ..., Anglo-Saxon roccettan .] 1. To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed. "Cattle free to ruminate ." Wordsworth.

2. Fig.: To think again and again; to muse; to meditate; to ponder; to reflect. Cowper.

Apart from the hope of the gospel, who is there that ruminates on the felicity of heaven?

I. Taylor.

Ruminate Ru"mi·nate transitive verb 1. To chew over again.

2. Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on.

Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin.

Dryden.

What I know
Is ruminated , plotted, and set down.

Shak.

Ruminate, Ruminated Ru"mi·nate, Ru"mi·na`ted adjective (Botany) Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

Rumination Ru`mi·na"tion noun [ Latin ruminatio : confer French rumination .] 1. The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

Rumination is given to animals to enable them at once to lay up a great store of food, and afterward to chew it.

Arbuthnot.

2. The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection.

Retiring full of rumination sad.

Thomson.

3. (Physiol.) The regurgitation of food from the stomach after it has been swallowed, -- occasionally observed as a morbid phenomenon in man.

Ruminative Ru"mi·na·tive adjective Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation.

Ruminator Ru"mi·na`tor noun [ Latin ] One who ruminates or muses; a meditator.

Rumkin Rum"kin noun [ Confer Rummer , and see -kin .] A popular or jocular name for a drinking vessel. [ Obsolete]

Rummage Rum"mage noun [ For roomage , from room ; hence originally, a making room, a packing away closely. See Room .] 1. (Nautical) A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship; also, the act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage; -- formerly written romage . [ Obsolete]

2. A searching carefully by looking into every corner, and by turning things over.

He has made such a general rummage and reform in the office of matrimony.

Walpole.

Rummage sale , a clearance sale of unclaimed goods in a public store, or of odds and ends which have accumulated in a shop. Simmonds.

Rummage Rum"mage transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rummaged ; present participle & verbal noun Rummaging .] 1. (Nautical) To make room in, as a ship, for the cargo; to move about, as packages, ballast, so as to permit close stowage; to stow closely; to pack; -- formerly written roomage , and romage . [ Obsolete]

They might bring away a great deal more than they do, if they would take pain in the romaging .

Hakluyt.

2. To search or examine thoroughly by looking into every corner, and turning over or removing goods or other things; to examine, as a book, carefully, turning over leaf after leaf.

He . . . searcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.

Howell.

What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!

M. Arnold.

Rummage Rum"mage intransitive verb To search a place narrowly.

I have often rummaged for old books in Little Britain and Duck Lane.

Swift.

[ His house] was haunted with a jolly ghost, that . . .
. . . rummaged like a rat.

Tennyson.

Rummager Rum"ma·ger noun 1. One who rummages.

2. (Nautical) A person on shipboard whose business was to take charge of stowing the cargo; -- formerly written roomager , and romager . [ Obsolete]

The master must provide a perfect mariner, called a romager , to range and bestow all merchandise.

Hakluyt.

Rummer Rum"mer noun [ Dutch roemer , romer , akin to German römer , Swedish remmare ; perhaps properly, Roman.] A large and tall glass, or drinking cup. [ Obsolete] J. Philips.

Rummy Rum"my adjective Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

Rummy Rum"my noun ; plural Rummies One who drinks rum; an habitually intemperate person. [ Low]

Rummy Rum"my adjective [ See Rum , adjective ] Strange; odd. [ Slang]

Rumney Rum"ney noun A sort of Spanish wine. [ Obsolete]

Rumor Ru"mor noun [ French rumeur , Latin rumor ; confer rumificare , rumitare to rumor, Sanskrit ru to cry.] [ Written also rumour .] 1. A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.

Luke vii. 17.

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight.

Shak.

2. A current story passing from one person to another, without any known authority for its truth; -- in this sense often personified.

Rumor next, and Chance,
And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled.

Milton.

3. A prolonged, indistinct noise. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Rumor Ru"mor transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rumored ; present participle & verbal noun Rumoring .] To report by rumor; to tell.

'T was rumored
My father 'scaped from out the citadel.

Dryden.

Rumorer Ru"mor·er noun A teller of news; especially, one who spreads false reports. Shak.

Rumorous Ru"mor·ous adjective [ Confer Old French rumoreux , Italian rumoroso , romoroso .] 1. Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors. [ Obsolete] Sir H. Wotton.

2. Famous; notorious. [ Obsolete] Bale.

3. Murmuring. [ Obsolete or Poetic] Drayton.

Rump Rump noun [ Middle English rumpe ; akin to Dutch romp trunk, body, LG. rump , German rumpf , Danish rumpe rump, Icelandic rumpr , Swedish rumpa rump, tail.] 1. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

2. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef .

3. Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

Rump Parliament , or The Rump (Eng. Hist.) , the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.

The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump , and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.

Swift.

-- Rump steak , a beefsteak from the rump. Goldsmith.

Rump-fed Rump"-fed adjective A Shakespearean word of uncertain meaning. Perhaps "fattened in the rump, pampered." "The rump-fed ronyon."

Rumper Rump"er noun A member or a supporter of the Rump Parliament. I. Disraeli.

Rumple Rum"ple transitive verb & i. [ imperfect & past participle Rumpled present participle & verbal noun Rumpling ] [ Confer rimple , and Dutch rimpelen to wrinkle, rompelig rough, uneven, German rümpfen to wrinkle, Middle High German rümphen , Old High German rimpfan , Greek "ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, ... to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.

They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.

Burke.

Rumple Rum"ple noun A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden.

Rumpled Rum"pled adjective Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.

Rumpless Rump"less adjective Destitute of a rump.

Rumply Rum"ply adjective Rumpled. Carlyle.

Rumpus Rum"pus noun A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [ Colloq.]

Rumseller Rum"sell`er noun One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.

Run Run intransitive verb [ imperfect Ran or Run ; past participle Run ; present participle & verbal noun Running .] [ Middle English rinnen , rennen (imp. ran , past participle runnen , ronnen ). Anglo-Saxon rinnan to flow (imp. ran , past participle gerunnen ), and iernan , irnan , to run (imp. orn , arn , earn , past participle urnen ); akin to Dutch runnen , rennen , Old Saxon & Old High German rinnan , German rinnen , rennen , Icelandic renna , rinna , Swedish rinna, ränna, Danish rinde , rende , Goth. rinnan , and perhaps to Latin oriri to rise, Greek ... to stir up, rouse, Sanskrit ... (cf. Origin ), or perhaps to Latin rivus brook (cf. Rival ). √11. Confer Ember , adjective , 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: --

2. Of voluntary or personal action: (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.

"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran .

Chaucer.

(b) To flee, as from fear or danger.

As from a bear a man would run for life.

Shak.

(c) To steal off; to depart secretly.

My conscience will serve me to run from this jew.

Shak.

(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.

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.

(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.

Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?

Addison.

(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.

Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.

Addison.

(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.

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.

The fire ran along upon the ground.

Ex. ix. 23.

(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.

As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run .

Addison.

Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.

Woodward.

(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.

She saw with joy the line immortal run ,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.

Pope.

(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.

As fast as our time runs , we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.

Addison.

(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.

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.

(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.

Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.

Locke.

Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason.

Shak.

(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

The king's ordinary style runneth , "Our sovereign lord the king."

Bp. Sanderson.

(l) 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.

(m) 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.

(n) 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.

(o) 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.

(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.

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.

(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) (Nautical) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.

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).

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.

As things run , according to the usual order, conditions, quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or specification. -- To let run (Nautical) , 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 into . (a) To enter; to step in . (b) To come in collision with. -- To run in trust , to run in debt; to get credit. [ Obsolete] -- To run in with . (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [ R.] T. Baker. (b) (Nautical) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land. -- To run mad , To run mad after or 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 .

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 . (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.

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. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance . "Its rivers ran with gold." J. H. Newman.

Run Run transitive verb 1. To cause to run (in the various senses of Run , intransitive verb ); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.

The purest gold must be run and washed.

Felton.

6. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.

7. 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.

8. To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.

9. To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [ Colloq. U.S.]

10. To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances , below. "He runneth two dangers." Bacon.

11. 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.

12. 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 Cæsar fell.

Shak.

13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.

14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. [ Colloq. U.S.]

15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [ Colloq.]

16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.

17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.

To run a blockade , to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety. -- To run down . (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag . (b) (Nautical) To run against and sink, as a vessel . (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear . "Religion is run down by the license of these times." Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. -- To run hard . (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately . (c) To banter severely. - - To run into the ground , to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo. [ Slang, U.S.] -- To run off , to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace. -- To run on (Print.) , to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph. -- To run out . (a) To thrust or push out; to extend. (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate. (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two bases. -- To run the chances, or one's chances , to encounter all the risks of a certain course. -- To run through , to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword. "[ He] was run through the body by the man who had asked his advice." Addison. -- To run up . (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender. (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account . (c) To erect hastily, as a building .

Run Run noun 1. The act of running; as, a long run ; a good run ; a quick run ; to go on the run .

2. A small stream; a brook; a creek.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.

8. A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run . Howitt.

9. (Nautical) (a) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter. (b) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run ; a run of fifty miles. (c) A voyage; as, a run to China.

10. A pleasure excursion; a trip. [ Colloq.]

I think of giving her a run in London.

Dickens.

11. (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.

12. (Mus.) A roulade, or series of running tones.

13. (Mil.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

14. 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.

15. In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; 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 " runs " are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run .

R. A. Proctor.

16. A pair or set of millstones.

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. Confer Home stretch . (b) (Baseball) See under Home . -- The run , or The common run , 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 (Nautical) , to loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail.

Run Run adjective 1. Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.

2. Smuggled; as, run goods. [ Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.

Run steel , malleable iron castings. See under Malleable . Raymond.

Run Run noun 1. (Piquet, Cribbage, etc.) A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.

2. (Golf) (a) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running. (b) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.

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