(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.
