資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.]