rummage (age as Ig), romage

i. & t. [Eng. room; -age. ] A. Intransitive : *1. Originally a nautical term, meaning so to stow goods in the hold of a ve el that there might be the greatest po ible room or roomage. IMG:content-0825.png:[blocks in formation] "The foul rumple of her camel-back." rump'-lě , a. [Eng. rump ; -le .] Having no rum-plý, a . [English rumpl (e); -y.] Having rumples; rumpled. "They spin out IMG:content-0826.png:[blocks in formation] răm-pus, s . [Etym. doubtful.] A noise, a dis- turbance, a quarrel, confusion. rum-swiz-zle, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A kind of frieze cloth made in Ireland from undyed foreign IMG:content-0827.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0828.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0829.png:[blocks in formation] "My conscience will serve me to run from this Jew."- Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 2. (7) To pa quickly. 3. To pa over space rapidly. (1) To pa rapidly over or along the surface; to spread. "The fire ran along upon the ground."- Exodus ix. 23. (2) To be carried along violently; as, One ship (3) To move on wheels or runners; as, A train runs to Chicago. (5) To make sudden and pre ing demands; as, to run on a bank. 5. To have such and such a course; to go, to pa , to proceed. (Said of things.) (1) To make progre ; to pa . "Time and the hour runs through the roughest day." Shakesp.: Macbeth , i. 3. (2) To have a certain course or line; to extend, to stretch, to lie; as, The road runs east. (3) To have a legal or established course or effect; to continue in force, effect, or operation. "It is nonsense to talk about maintaining the suprem- acy of the Crown, if the Queen's writ does not run throughout Ireland."- London Standard . (4) To be popularly known or spread to be gan- erany received. "There ran a rumor."- Shakesp .: Macbeth , iv. 3. (5) To have reception; to be received; to con- tinue, to pa ; as, The book ran through several editions. rump-ěr, s. [Eng. rump: -er.] One who sup- ported, or was a member of, the Rump Parliament. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-0830.png:[blocks in formation] 5. To accomplish by running; as, to run a race. 6. To pursue, as a course; to follow, to take. "This course which you are running here." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., ii. 4. 7. To cause to ply; to maintain for running; as, to run a stage coach from one town to another. 8. To carry on or conduct, as a busine . run 10. To introduce and carry through; as, to run a bill through Congre . 11. To start, as a candidate. "Run a Loyalist candidate in each one of the seventy constituencies outside Ulster."-London Daily Telegrapa . 12. To cause to pa ; as, to run a rope through a block. 13. To pour forth; to emit, as a stream; to cause to flow; to discharge. "My statue Which, like a fountain with a hundred spouts, Did run pure blood." 14. To melt, to fuse. Shakesp.: Julius Cæsar, ii. 2. 15. To form or shape in a mold; to cast. to mold. "Those hunters who run their own bullets." Bar roughs: Pepacton , p. 11. 16. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. "To run the world back to its first original, and view nature in its cradle."- South . 17. To break through. to evade; as, to run a blockade. 18. To export or import without paying duty; to smuggle. "Heavy impositions le en the import and are a strong temptation of running goods."- Swift . 19. To incur, to encounter; as, to run a risk. 20. To hazard, to risk, to venture. "He would himself be in the highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them." -Clarendon: Civil War. to run a line. 21. To draw or cause to be drawn or marked; as, 22. To sew by pa ing the needle through, backward and forward in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time; as, to run a seam. 23. To force into any way or form: to bring to a state. "This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head Should run thy head from thy irreverent shoulders." Shakesp.: Richard II ., ii. 1. *24. To make teasing remarks to; to nag, to IMG:content-0831.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To run before: (1) To flee before. *(2) To outstrip in running; to excel, to surpa . 7. To run down: (1) To run or drive against and overturn or sink; as, to run down a ship. (2) To chase to wearine , and capture; as, to run down a stag. (3) To crush, to overthrow, to overwhelm. (4) To pursue with scandal or opposition; to depreciate; as, to run down another's talents. (5) To cease to work or act; as, A clock runs down. 8. To run down a coast: To sail along it. 9. To run foul of: [FOUL, a.] 10. To run hard: IMG:content-0832.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0833.png:[blocks in formation] 20. To run on all fours; to run on four legs: (1) Lit.: To run on hands and feet. (2) Fig .: To be exactly analogous or similar; to agree exactly; to correspond in every point. ( Col loquial .) (Followed by with .) "This statement runs on four legs side by side with Molière's famous statement that opium was soporific because it sent men to sleep."- St . James's Gazette , Sept. 8, 1886. 21. To run one's face : To obtain credit in a bold manner. ( Slang .) 22. To run one's letters: [LETTER, 8. ] 23. To run out: (1) Transitive: (a) Ordinary Language: (i) To thrust or push out; to extend. *(ii) To waste, to exhaust; as, to run out an estate. (b) Technically : (i) Print.: To withdraw the carriage, with the form of type, after taking an impre ion. (a) To insert in a newspaper or other publication; as, to run an ad. (ii) Cricket : To put "out" while running, or out of one's ground. "March ant being foolishly run out." - London Daily Telegraph. (2) Intransitive : has run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, The lease (b) To stop after running to the end of its time, as a watch or an hour-gla . (c) To spread exuberantly. "Insectile animals Hammond. run all out into legs." *(d) To be wasted or exhausted; as, An estate runs out. *(e) To become poor by extravagance. ( f ) To finish in a competition. "Eventually ran out a winner by ninety-two points."Field, April 4, 1885. 24. To run out a warp , hawser , or cable : To carry out its end to any object, for the purpose of mooring, warping, . 25. To run out the guns : To force their muzzles out of the port by means of the side tackles. 26. To run over : (1) To overflow. (2) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. (3) To go over, examine, or recount cursorily. "And in running over Europe, we shall find that, wherever learning has beer cultivated, it has flourished by the same advantages as in Greece."- Goldsmith : Polite Learning, ch. iv. 27. To run riot : [RIOT.] 28. To run the eye over: To look through rapidly of types, so as to obtain an impre ion. (2) Intransitive: (a) To enter, to pa , or step in. (b) To spend quickly, to di ipate, to exhaust by extravagance; as, to run through a fortune. (2) Founding : To pa a quantity of metal debt. make the casting solid. IMG:content-0834.png:[blocks in formation] run up a large account. (b) To erect; especially to erect hastily. "And run up a store out of so many planks and so much corrugated iron."- London Daily Telegraph. (c) To thrust up, as something long and slender. (d) To raise in value. "Engaged in running up the prices of the Southern Lines." Money Market Review , Aug. 29, 1885. (e) To sew up, by taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time; to repair temporarily by sewing. (f) To add up; as, to run up a column of figures. (2) Intransitive: (a) Ord . Lang .: To rise, to grow, to increase; as, The amount runs up quickly. (b) Coursing : To be the second in a coursing match; to be the runner-up (q. v.). 34. To run with the land: Law ( of a covenant ): To affect real property. run, s. [RUN, υ.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of running; a course run; spec if., a chase after an animal hunted. "After a four hours' run last week."-London Daily Chronicle. 2. A trip, a pleasure excursion. ( Colloq .) "I think of giving her a run in London for a change." -Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. xxx. 3. Power of running; strength or ability in running. 4. A course, progre , or flow; especially, particular or distinctive course, progre , tenor, . "He nowhere uses any softne , or any run of verses please the ear. ' -Broome : Notes on the Ody ey. 5. Continued course; as, a run of luck; especially, continued succe or popularity. "The average duration of the theatrical run is much longer here." - London Daily News. 6. A stream. "A cold spring run came down off the mountain."Burroughs: Pepacton , p. 16. 7. Free use of, or acce to. "The shilling gave every guest the run of the groaning board."- St . James's Gazette , Sept. 23, 1885. 8. A general or extraordinary demand or pre ure; spec if., a demand on a bank or treasury for redemption of its notes. 9. Character; lay. "He knew the run of the country better than his neighbors."- Field , Jan. 23, 1886. 10. A place where animals run or mayrun; a large extent of grazing ground; as, a sheep run , a cattle run. 11. A burrow. "These nimble creatures disappear into the earth in the twinkle of an eye, and have a hundred underground runs." -London Daily Telegraph. 12. Clamor, outcry. (Followed by against.) 13. A plank laid down to support rollers in moving buildings and other heavy objects; also as a track for wheelbarrows. 14. A pair of millstones in working order. II. Technically: 1. Baseball and Cricket: The complete act of running from one base or wicket to the other by a batsman. The match is won by the side making IMG:content-0835.png:[blocks in formation] (2) The course or distance sailed by a ve el. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, run-up IMG:content-0836.png:[ocr errors] (3) A voyage, trip, or pa age from one port to another. (Seamen are said to be engaged on the run when they are shipped for a single voyage out or homeward, or from one port to another.) 6. The migration of fish up a river for the purpose of spawning; the school of fish thus migrating. (1) By (or with ) a (or the run : Suddenly; all at once. (Said of a fall, descent, or the like. ( Slang .) "A good prospect of their coming down to the ground with a run."-London Daily Telegraph. (2) In the long run, * at the long run: In the end, in the result, eventually. "A mere pa examination never, in the long run, does more than exclude absolute dunces." J. S. Mill : Repre sentative Government, ch. xiv. (3) The common run; the run: That which is most commonly seen or met with; the generality. (4) To get the run upon: To make a butt of; to ridicule. IMG:content-0837.png:[blocks in formation] 3517 *2. Something put round an axis. "Of an axis or cylinder, having a rundle about it. wherein are fastened divers spokes."- Wilkes : Math. Mag. *3. A ball. *4. Something round or circular; a circle. 5. One of the bars in a lantern-wheel (q. v.). II. Naut.: The drum of a capstan. rûne, subst . [A.S.rún=a rune, a mystery; cogn. with Icel. rún =a secret. a rune; Goth. run a ; O. H. Ger.rúna a secret, counsel; Germanraunen ; Mid. Eng. roun, round =to whisper.] Archæology: 1. Any letter of the Futhork (q.v.). They are formed almost entirely of straight lines, and may have been derived, as Schlegel supposes, from the Phoenicians, for several of the Runic characters bear close resemblance to the letters of the Phenic i an alphabet. Schloezer holds that they are corruptions of the Roman alphabet, while another theory is that they are the original characters of the Indo-Germanic tribes brought from the East, and preserved among the races of that stock. The name Rune was first mentioned by Venantius For tun at us in the sixth century as the name of a German letter. The knowledge of the Runes was confined to a small cla , and they were used for purposes of augury, and for magical symbols. They have been grouped into three systems the AngloS axon, the German, and the Norse or Scand in avian; but no great difference exists between them. Traces of Runes in inscriptions occur in England in the old kingdoms of Nor thumb ria, Mercia, and East Anglia; in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Iceland. IMG:content-0838.png:[blocks in formation] 1. One who runs from danger or service; one who forsakes or deserts lawful service; a fugitive. 2. A running away; an escape from restraint. B. As adjective: 1. Acting the part of a runaway; fugitive; deserting lawful service; breaking from restraint; as, a runaway horse. 2. Accomplished or effected by running away; as, a runaway match. *run-ca-tion, s. [Lat. runcatio , from runcatus , pa. par. of runco =to weed.) The act of weeding. run-çin-āte, a. [RUNCINATO-.] Bot . ( of a leaf ): Hook-backed; curved in a direction from the apex to the base, having the points of the great central lobes reflexed, as the leaves of Taraxacum of ficin ale ( Leon to don taraxacum ) .