(obsolete) A hard knob of wood used in playing hockey.
A hard knot in wood; a knur or knurl.
run
run
adj
(of a zoology) Travelled, migrated; having made a migration or a spawning run.
Cast in a mould.
Exhausted; depleted (especially with "down" or "out").
In a liquid state; melted or molten.
Smuggled.
noun
(American football) A running play.
(Australia, New Zealand) Rural landholding for farming, usually for running sheep, and operated by a runholder.
(baseball) A score when a runner touches all bases legally; the act of a runner scoring.
(card games) A sequence of cards in a suit in a card game.
(chiefly eastern Midland US, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
(construction) Horizontal dimension of a slope.
(cricket) The act of passing from one wicket to another; the point scored for this.
(golf) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke.
(golf) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running it.
(mathematics, computing) The execution of a program or model
(mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by licence of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes.
(music) A rapid passage in music, especially along a scale.
(nautical) The stern of the underwater body of a ship from where it begins to curve upward and inward.
(of horses) A fast gallop.
(skiing, bobsledding) A single trip down a hill, as in skiing and bobsledding.
(slang) A period of extended (usually daily) drug use.
(video games) A playthrough, or attempted playthrough; a session of play.
A (regular) trip or route.
A continuous period (of time) marked by a trend; a period marked by a continuing trend.
A flow of liquid; a leak.
A group of fish that migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
A line of knit stitches that have unravelled, particularly in a nylon stocking.
A pair or set of millstones.
A pleasure trip.
A production quantity (such as in a factory).
A quick pace, faster than a walk.
A series of tries in a game that were successful.
A standard or unexceptional group or category.
A sudden series of demands on a bank or other financial institution, especially characterised by great withdrawals.
A trial.
A voyage.
Act or instance of hurrying (to or from a place) (not necessarily on foot); dash or errand, trip.
Act or instance of running, of moving rapidly using the feet.
An enclosure for an animal; a track or path along which something can travel.
Any sudden large demand for something.
Flight, instance or period of fleeing.
I need to make a run to the store.
Migration (of fish).
State of being current; currency; popularity.
The distance drilled with a bit, in oil drilling.
The distance sailed by a ship.
The horizontal length of a set of stairs
The period of showing of a play, film, TV series, etc.
The route taken while running or skiing.
The top of a step on a staircase, also called a tread, as opposed to the rise.
Unrestricted use. Only used in have the run of.
verb
(American football, transitive or intransitive) To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
(archaic) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
(copulative) To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
(figurative, transitive) To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
(golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
(intransitive) Of a liquid, to flow.
(intransitive) Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
(intransitive) Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
(intransitive) Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
(intransitive) Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
(intransitive) To be a candidate in an election.
(intransitive) To be presented in the media.
(intransitive) To become liquid; to melt.
(intransitive) To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
(intransitive) To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
(intransitive) To flee from a danger or towards help.
(intransitive) To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
(intransitive) To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
(intransitive) To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
(intransitive, figuratively) To move or spread quickly.
(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
(transitive or intransitive) To compete in a race.
(transitive) To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
(transitive) To cause to move quickly or lightly.
(transitive) To control or manage, be in charge of.
(transitive) To cost a large amount of money.
(transitive) To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
(transitive) To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
(transitive) To make a machine operate.
(transitive) To make run in a race.
(transitive) To make run in an election.
(transitive) To make something extend in space.
(transitive) To print or broadcast in the media.
(transitive) To smuggle (illegal goods).
(transitive) To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
(transitive) To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
(transitive, agriculture) To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
(transitive, intransitive) Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
(transitive, juggling, colloquial) To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
(video games, rare) To speedrun.
To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
To cause to enter; to thrust.
To control or have precedence in a card game.
To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
To have growth or development.
To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
To sew (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.
To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
past participle of rin
urn
urn
noun
(botany) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
(figurative) Any place of burial; the grave.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
A vase with a footed base.
A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
