(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) (Naut.) 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
(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 into. (a) To enter;
to step in. (b) To come in collision with. -- 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 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 (&?;), v. t. 1. 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.