Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

      (m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
          up rapidly.

                If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
                run to leaves.                    --Mortimer.
      (n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

                A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
                                                  --Bacon.

                Temperate climates run into moderate
                governments.                      --Swift.
      (o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
          in washing.

                In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
                distinguished, but near the borders they run
                into one another.                 --I. Watts.
      (p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in
          force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in
          company; as, certain covenants run with the land.

                Customs run only upon our goods imported or
                exported, and that but once for all; whereas
                interest runs as well upon our ships as goods,
                and must be yearly paid.          --Sir J.
                                                  Child.
      (q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a
          note has thirty days to run.
      (r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
      (s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days
          or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
      (t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from
          reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.

   4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in
      which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a
      supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are
      gathered in the air under the body. --Stillman (The Horse
      in Motion).

   5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that
      there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches
      the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic
      competition.

   {As things run}, according to the usual order, conditions,
      quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or
      specification.

   {To let run} (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to
      slacken or loosen.

   {To run after}, to pursue or follow; to search for; to
      endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
      --Locke.

   {To run away}, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without
      control or guidance.

   {To run away with}.
      (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or
          elopement.
      (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs
          away with a carriage.

   {To run down}.
      (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the
          exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks,
          watches, etc.