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Legislation may disappoint them fifty times running, without at all shaking their faith in its efficiency. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 422 running 6. Continuous; unintermittent; persistent. The click-click of her knitting-needles is the running accompaniment to all her conversation. George Eliot, Amos Barton, L 7. In bot . , repent or creeping by runners, as the strawberry. See runner , 2. Running banquett. See banquet , 3. - Running block. See block1 , 11.-Running board. (a) A narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive. (b) A horizontal board along the ridge of a box freight-car or the side of an oil-car, to form a pa age for the trainmen. Running bond. See bond !, -Running bowline, a bowline-knot made round a part of the same rope, so as to make a noose. - Running bowsprit. See bowsprit . Running buffalo-clover, an American clover, Trifolium stoloniferum , closely related to T. reflexum , the buffalo-clover, but spreading by runners. Running days, a chartering term for consecu tive days occupied on a voyage, etc., including Sun days, and not therefore limited to working-days. Running dustman. See dustman.- Running fight, a fight kept up by the party pursuing and the party pursued Running fire. See fire. - Running footmant. See footman, 3.- Running hand, the style of handwriting or penmanship in which the letters are formed without lifting the pen from the paper. - Running head. See head, 13.-Running knot, a knot made in such a way as to form a noose which tightens as the rope is pulled on.-Running lights, the lights shown by ve els between sunset and sunrise, in order to guard against collision when under way. They are a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side. If the ve el is under steam, a bright white light is also hoisted at the foremast-head; a ve el towing another carries two white lights at the foremast-head. - Running myrtle. See myrtle.- Running ornament, any ornament in which the design is continuous, in intertwined or flowing Running Ornament.- Medieval Architectural Sculpture. lines, as in many medieval moldings carved with foliage, etc. Running patterer. See patterer . - Running pine. See Lycopodium . Running rigging. See rigging2.-Running stationer. See stationer. Running swamp-blackberry, Rubus hispid us , an almost herbaceous species, with short flowering shoots, bearing a fruit of a few sour grains, and with long and slender prickly runners. Running title, in printing , a descriptive headline put continuously at the top of pages of type. Also called running head-line. - Running toad. Same as nat terjack . running (run'ing), prep . [Prop. ppr., with on or toward understood. Cf. rising , p. a., 3, in a somewhat similar use.] Approaching; going on. [Colloq.] I hae been your gudwife These nine years, running ten.