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[A dim in. from run (q. v.).] A little stream, a rivulet. (Tennyson: In Memoriam, схіх. 13.) runn, s . [Mahratta, ., ran a thicket, a wood, a waste.] A waste. (Used only of the Runn of Cutch, which is a salt-marsh tolerably dry in the hot season, flooded and impa able in the rains.) run-nel, s. (A dim in. from run (q. v.).] 1. A rivulet, a small stream or brook. 2. A runner. "Their roots, like molten metal cooled in flowing, Stiffened in coils and runnels down the bank." Lowell, in Burroughs: Pepacton , p. 142. rŭn'-ner, s . [Eng.run, v.; -er.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. One who runs; one who joins in a race. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0840.png:[blocks in formation] Guilford, ii. 188. 6. A round piece of wood, on which any heavy weight is rolled along; a roller. 7. One of the curved pieces of a sled or sleigh which run or slide upon the ground and support the bed. 8. A ship which runs a blockad. 9. One whose busine it is to solicit pa engers for railways, steamboats, . 10. The slider of an umbrella to which the spreaders are pivoted. 11. A run of water, a stream. Field, Oct. 17, 1885. "When they are going up the runners to spawn." II. Technically : 1. Bot .: A prostrate filiform stem, forming at its extremity roots and a young plant, which itself gives birth to new runners, as in the strawberry. Properly it is a prostrate, viviparous scape, i . e ., one producing roots and leaves instead of flowers. It is akin to a sucker, which, however, roots at various parts of its course. 2. Entom. ( pl. ): The Cursor i a (q. v.). 3. Found.: A gate (q. v.). 4. Milling.: The revolving millstone of a grinding mill. It is usually, but not always, the upper stone. Sometimes both stones are driven, and thus become the upper and lower runner respectively. 5. Naut .: A thick rope rove through a single block, a hook attached to one end and the other pa ed around one of the tackle-blocks. A whip and-runner has a single block only, attached to the fall of the runner. 6. Optics: A convex tool of cast-iron, on which lenses are supported while grinding in the shell. 7. Ornith. (pl.): The Cursores (q. v.). 8. Saddlery : A loop, usually of metal, used in harne -making to receive a running strap or rein. The gag-rein pa es through runners suspended from the throat-latch on each side of the throat. 9. Stone - working : A rubber (q. v.). 10. Well - boring : A loop-shaped piece for taking hold of the top it or top-piece of the train of boring rods. runner-ball, s. Gunpowder: A wooden dish which crushes the mill-cake through the meshes of the sieves in granulating gunpowder. runner-stick, s. Found.: A cylindrical or slightly conical piece of wood, which acts as a pattern to form the upright part of the gate. runner-tackle, s. Naut .: A luff-tackle applied to the running end of a rope pa ed through a movable pillow. [RUNNER.] runner-up, s. Coursing: The greyhound which takes the second prize, losing only the final course with the actual winner of the stakes; hence any competitor who runs second, or takes second place in any competition. "The falling together of last year's winner and runner up."- Field , Dec. 6, 1884. run-nět, s. [RENNET.] răn-ning, pr. par., a. & s. [RUN, v.] A. As pr. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Moving or proceeding at a run. 2. Kept for running; as, a running horse. 3. Discharging pus or matter; as, a running sore. 4. Not discharged at the time, but settled periodically; as, a running account. 5. Interspersed with the original matter. "Her running comment on the plates combines sensible notes with good advice." -Athenœum, Dec. 20, 1884. 6. In succe ion; without any day, week, ., intervening; as, He cam three days running . C. As substantive: 1. The act of one who or that which runs. 2. That which runs or flows; quantity run. 3. Power, ability, or strength to run. 4. Matter or pus discharged from a sore. (1) To make good one's running : To run as well as one's rival; to prove one's self a match for one's rival. (2) To make the running: Racing: To force the pace at the beginning of a race. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f IMG:content-0841.png:[blocks in formation] Comm.: A chartering term for consecutive days occupied on a voyage, ., including Sun days, and not being therefore limited to working days.