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To run off

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {To run off}, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten
      metal from a furnace.

   {To run on} (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type
      for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a
      new paragraph.

   {To run out}.
       (a) To thrust or push out; to extend.
       (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate.
       (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two
           bases.

   {To run} {the chances, or one's chances}, to encounter all
      the risks of a certain course.

   {To run through}, to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword.
      ``[He] was run through the body by the man who had asked
      his advice.'' --Addison.

   {To run up}.
       (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
       (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account.
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