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Run
King James Dictionary
or RUN, pret. ran or run pp. run.
1. To move or pass in almost any manner, as on the feet or on wheels. Men and other animals run on their feet carriages run on wheels, and wheels run on their axle-trees.
2. To move or pass on the feet with celerity or rapidity, by leaps or long quick steps as, men and quadrupeds run when in haste.
3. To use the legs in moving to step as, children run alone or run about.
4. To move in a hurry.
The priest and people run about.
5. To proceed along the surface to extend to spread as, the fire runs over a field or forest.
The fire ran along upon the ground. Exodus 9 .
6. To rush with violence as, a ship runs against a rock or one ship runs against another.
7. To move or pass on the water to sail as, ships run regularly between New York and Liverpool. Before a storm, run into a harbor, or under the lee of the land. The ship has run ten knots an hour.
8. To contend in a race as, men or horses run for a prize.
9. To flee for escape. When General Wolfe was dying, an officer standing by him exclaimed, see how they run. Who run? said the dying hero. The enemy, said the officer. Then I die happy, said the general.
10. To depart privately to steal away.
My conscience will serve me to run from this Jew, my master.
11. To flow in any manner, slowly or rapidly to move or pass as a fluid. Rivers run to the ocean or to lakes. The Connecticut runs on sand, and its water is remarkably pure. The tide runs two or three miles an hour. Tears run down the cheeks.
12. To emit to let flow.
I command that the conduit run nothing but claret.
Rivers run potable gold.
But this form of expression is elliptical, with being omitted "rivers run with potable gold."
13. To be liquid or fluid.
As wax dissolves, as ice begin to run -
14. To be fusible to melt.
Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
15. To fuse to melt.
Your iron must not burn in the fire, that is, run or melt, for then it will be brittle.
16. To turn as, a wheel runs on an axis or on a pivot.
17. To pass to proceed as, to run through a course of business to run through life to run in a circle or a line to run through all degrees of promotion.
18. To flow, as words, language or periods. The lines run smoothly.
19. To pass, as time.
As fast as our time runs, we should be glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.
20. To have a legal course to be attached to to have legal effect.
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.
21. To have a course or direction.
Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.
Little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason.
22. To pass in thought, speech or practice as, to run through a series of arguments to run from one topic to another.
Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
23. To be mentioned cursorily or in few words.
The whole runs on short, like articles in an account.
24. To have a continued tenor or course. The conversation ran on the affairs of the Greeks.
The king's ordinary style runneth, "our sovereign lord the king."
25. To be in motion to speak incessantly. Her tongue runs continually.
26. To be busied to dwell.
When we desire any thing, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
27. To be popularly known.
Men gave then their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.
28. To be received to have reception, success or continuance. The pamphlet runs well among a certain class of people.
29. To proceed in succession.
She saw with joy the line immortal run, each sire impress'd and glaring in his son.
30. To pass from one state or condition to another as, to run into confusion or error to run distracted.
31. To proceed in a train of conduct.
You should run a certain course.
32. To be in force.
The owner hath incurred the forfeiture of eight years profits of his lands, before he cometh to the knowledge of the process that runneth against him.
33. To be generally received.
He was not ignorant what report run of himself.
34. To be carried to extend to rise as, debates run high.
In popish countries, the power of the clergy runs higher.
35. To have a track or course.
Searching the ulcer with my probe, the sinus run up above the orifice.
36. To extend to lie in continued length. Veins of silver run in different directions.
37. To have a certain direction. The line runs east and west.
38. To pass in an orbit of any figure. The planets run their periodical courses. The comets do not run lawless through the regions of space.
39. To tend in growth or progress. Pride is apt to run into a contempt of others.
40. To grow exuberantly. Young persons of 10 or 12 years old, soon run up to men and women.
If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves, treading down the leaves will help their rooting.
41. To discharge pus or other matter as, an ulcer runs.
42. To reach to extend to the remembrance of as time out of mind, the memory of which runneth not to the contrary.
43. To continue in time, before it becomes due and payable as, a note runs thirty days a note of six months has ninety days to run.
44. To continue in effect, force or operation.
The statute may be prevented from running - by the act of the creditor.
45. To press with numerous demands of payment as, to run upon a bank.
46. To pass or fall into fault, vice or misfortune as, to run into vice to run into evil practices to run into debt to run into mistakes.
47. To fall or pass by gradual changes to make a transition as, colors run one into another.
48. To have a general tendency.
Temperate climates run into moderate governments.
49. To proceed as on a ground or principle. Obs.
50. To pass or proceed in conduct or management.
Tarquin, running into all the methods of tyranny, after a cruel reign was expelled.
51. To creep to move by creeping or crawling as, serpents run on the ground.
52. To slide as, a sled or sleigh runs on the snow.
53. To dart to shoot as a meteor in the sky.
54. To fly to move in the air as, the clouds run from N.E. to S.W.
55. In Scripture, to pursue or practice the duties of religion.
Ye did run well who did hinder you? Galatians 5 .
56. In elections, to have interest or favor to be supported by votes. The candidate will not run, or he will run well.
1. To run after, to pursue or follow.
2. To search for to endeavor to find or obtain as, to run after similes.
To run at, to attack with the horns, as a bull.
To run away, to flee to escape.
1. To run away with, to hurry without deliberation.
2. To convey away or to assist in escape or elopement.
To run in, to enter to step in.
To run into, to enter as, to run into danger.
To run in trust, to run in debt to get credit. Not in use.
1. To run in with, to close to comply to agree with. Unusual.
2. To make towards to near to sail close to as, to run in with the land a seaman's phrase.
To run down a coast, to sail along it.
1. To run on, to be continued. Their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement.
2. To talk incessantly.
3. To continue a course.
4. To press with jokes or ridicule to abuse with sarcasms to bear hard on.
To run over, to overflow as, a cup runs over or the liquor runs over.
1. To run out, to come to an end to expire as, a lease runs out at Michaelmas.
2. To spread exuberantly as, insectile animals run out into legs.
3. To expatiate as, to run out into beautiful digressions. He runs out in praise of Milton.
4. To be wasted or exhausted as, an estate managed without economy, will soon run out.
5. To become poor by extravagance.
And had her stock been less, no doubt she must have long ago run out.
To run up, to rise to swell to amount. Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
RUN,
1. To drive or push in a general sense. Hence to run a sword through the body, is to stab or pierce it.
2. To drive to force.
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or others' secrets.
Others accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
3. To cause to be driven.
They ran the ship aground. Acts 27 .
4. To melt to fuse.
The purest gold must be run and washed.
5. To incur to encounter to run the risk or hazard of losing one's property. To run the danger, is a phrase not now in use.
6. To venture to hazard.
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
7. To smuggle to import or export without paying the duties required by law as, to run goods.
8. To pursue in thought to carry in contemplation as, to run the world back to its first original.
I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum saliens.
9. To push to thrust as, to run the hand into the pocket or the bosom to run a nail into the foot.
10. To ascertain and mark by metes and bounds as, to run a line between towns or states.
11. To cause to ply to maintain in running or passing as, to run a stage coach from London to Bristol to run a line of packets from New Haven to New York.
12. To cause to pass as, to run a rope through a block.
13. To found to shape, form or make in a mold to cast as, to run buttons or balls.
1. To run down, in hunting, to chase to weariness as, to run down a stag.
2. In navigation, to run down a vessel, is to run against her, end on, and sink her.
3. To crush to overthrow to overbear.
Religion is run down by the license of these times.
1. To run hard, to press with jokes, sarcasm or ridicule.
2. To urge or press importunately.
1. To run over, to recount in a cursory manner to narrate hastily as, to run over the particulars of a story.
2. To consider cursorily.
3. To pass the eye over hastily.
1. To run out, to thrust or push out to extend.
2. To waste to exhaust as, to run out an estate.
To run through, to expend to waste as, to run through an estate.
1. To run up, to increase to enlarge by additions. A man who takes goods on credit, is apt to run up his account to a large sum before he is aware of it.
2. To thrust up, as any thing long and slender.
RUN, n.
1. The act of running.
2. Course motion as the run of humor.
3. Flow as a run of verses to please the ear.
4. Course process continued series as the run of events.
5. Way will uncontrolled course.
Our family must have their run.
6. General reception continued success.
It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run or long continuance, if not diversified with humor.
7. Modish or popular clamor as a violent run against university education.
8. A general or uncommon pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
9. The aftmost part of a ship's bottom.
10. The distance sailed by a ship as, we had a good run.
11. A voyage also, an agreement among sailors to work a passage from one place to another.
12. A pair of mill-stones. A mill has two, four or six runs of stones.
13. Prevalence as, a disease, opinion or fashion has its run.
14. In the middle and southern states of America, a small stream a brook.
In the long run, at the long run, not so generally used, signifies the whole process or course of things taken together in the final result in the conclusion or end.
The run of mankind, the generality of people.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Run'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/r/run.html.
