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(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) (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.
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