The fourth Summer [A

D. 82], Domitian then ruling the Empire, he spent in settling and confirming what the year before he had travail'd over with a running Conquest. Milton, Fiist. Eng., ii. When you step but a few doors off to tattle with a wench, or take a running pot of ale,.. leave the street door open. Swift , Advice to Servants (Footman). 4. Cursive, as manuscript: as, running hand (see below).-5. Proceeding in close succe ion; without intermi ion: used in a semi adverbial sense after nouns denoting periods of time: as, I had the same dream three nights running. How would my Lady Ailesbury have liked to be asked in a parish church for three Sun days running?