资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      (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.
      (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.



   11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

             He would himself be in the Highlands to receive
             them, and run his fortune with them. --Clarendon.

   12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be
       bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

             At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while
             ran blood, great C[ae]sar fell.      --Shak.

   13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing;
       as, the rivers ran blood.

   14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory
       or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]

   15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]

   16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material
       in a continuous line, generally taking a series of
       stitches on the needle at the same time.

   17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to
       ascend a river in order to spawn.

   {To run a blockade}, to get to, or away from, a blockaded
      port in safety.

   {To run down}.
       (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is
           captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag.
       (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
       (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. ``Religion is
           run down by the license of these times.'' --Berkeley.
       (d) To disparage; to traduce. --F. W. Newman.

   {To run hard}.
       (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a
           race.
       (b) To urge or press importunately.
       (c) To banter severely.

   {To run into the ground}, to carry to an absurd extreme; to
      overdo. [Slang, U.S.]