(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.