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- English Word Run Definition To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
- English Word Run Definition To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
- English Word Run Definition To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
- English Word Run Definition 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.
- English Word Run Definition To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
- English Word Run Definition To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
- English Word Run Definition To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
- English Word Run Definition 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.
- English Word Run Definition To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
- English Word Run Definition To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- English Word Run Definition To be popularly known; to be generally received.
- English Word Run Definition To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
- English Word Run Definition To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- English Word Run Definition To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
- English Word Run Definition 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.
- English Word Run Definition To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
- English Word Run Definition To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
- English Word Run Definition To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
- English Word Run Definition To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
- English Word Run Definition 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.