Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RUN, n.

1. The act of running.
2. Course; motion; as, the run of humor. Bacon.
3. Flow; as, a run of verses to please the ear. Broome.
4. Course; process; continued series; as, the run of events.
5. Way; will; uncontrolled course. Our family gross have their run. Arbuthnot.
6. General reception; continued success. It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison.
7. Modish or popular clamor; as, a violent run against university education. Swift.
8. A general or uncommon pressure on a bank or treasury; for payment of its notes.
9. The aftmost part of a ship's bottom. Mar. Dict.
10. The distance sailed by a ship; as, we had a good run.
11. A voyage; also, an agreement among sailors to work a passage from one place to another. Mar. Dict.
12. A pair of mill-stones. A mill has two, four or six runs of stones.
13. Prevalence; as, a disease, opinion or fashion has its run.
14. In the middle and southern states of America, a small stream; a brook. In the long run, [at the long run, not so generally used,] signifies the whole process or course of things taken together; in the final result; in the conclusion or end. The run of mankind, the generality of people.