Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUN, v.t.

1. To drive or push; in a general sense. Hence to run a sword through the body, is to stab or pierce it.
2. To drive; to force. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences, by blabbing out his own or others' secrets. Ray. Others accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. Locke.
3. To cause to be driven. They ran the ship aground. Acts xxvii.
4. To melt; to fuse. The purest gold must be run and washed. Felton.
5. To incur; to encounter; to run the risk or hazard of losing one's property. To run the danger, is a phrase not now in use.
6. To venture; to hazard. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. Clarendon.
7. To smuggle; to import or export without paying the duties required by law; as, to run goods.
8. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation; as, to run the world back to its first original. South. I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its punctum sclieas. Collier.
9. To push; to thrust; as, to run the hand into the pocket or the bosom; to run a nail into the foot.
10. To ascertain and mark by metes and bounds; as, to run a line between towns or states.
11. To cause to ply; to maintain in running or passing; as, to run a stage coach from London to Bristol; to run a line of packets from New Haven to New York.
12. To cause to pass; as, to run a rope through a block.
13. To found; to shape, form or make in a mold; to cast; as, to run buttons or balls. To run down, in hunting, to chase to weariness; as, to run down a stag. #2. In navigation, to run down a vessel, is to run against her, end on, and sink her. Mar. Did. #3. To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. Religion is run down by the license of these times. Berkeley. To run hard, to press with jokes, sarcasm or ridicule. #2. To urge or press importunately. To run over, to recount in a cursory manner; to narrate hastily; as, to run over the particulars of a story. #2. To consider cursorily. #3. To pass the eye over hastily. To run out, to thrust or push out; to extend. #2. To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate. To run through, to expend; to waste; as, to run through an estate. To run up, to increase; to enlarge by additions. A man who takes goods on credit, is apt to run up his account to a large sum before he is aware of it. #2. To thrust up; as any thing long and slender.