n. One who or that which runs.n. One who is in the act of running, as in any game or sport.n. One who frequents or runs habitually to a place.n. A runaway; a fugitive; a deserter.n. One who risks or evades dangers, impediments, or legal restrictions, as in blockade-running or smuggling; especially, a smuggler.n. An operator or manager, as of an engine or a machine.n. One who goes about on any sort of errand; a messenger; specifically, in Great Britain and in the courts of China, a sheriff's officer; a bailiff; in the United States, one whose business it is to solicit passengers for railways, steamboats, etc.n. A commercial traveler. [U. S.]n. A running stream; a run.n. plural In ornithology, specifically, the Cursores or Brevipennes.n. plural In entomology, specifically, the cursorial orthopterous insects; the cockroaches. See Cursoria.n. A carangoid fish, the leather-jacket, Elagatis pinnulatus.n. In botany, a slender prostrate stem, having a bud at the end which sends out leaves and roots, as in the strawberry; also, a plant that spreads by such creeping stems. Compare run, intransitive verb, 10.n. In machinery: The tight pulley of a system of fast-and-loose pulleysn. In a grinding-mill, the stone which is turned, in distinction from the fixed stone, or bedstone. See cuts under mill, 1.n. In a system of pulleys, a block which moves, as distinguished from a block which is held in a fixed position. Also called running block. See cut under pulley.n. A single rope rove through a movable block, having an cye or thimble in the end of which a tackle is hooked.n. In saddlery, a loop of metal, leather, bone, celluloid, ivory, or other material, through which a running or sliding strap or rein is passed: as, the runners for the gag-rein on the throat-latch of a bridle or head-stall.n. In optical-instrument making, a convex cast-iron support for lenses, used in shaping them by grinding.n. That part of anything on which it runs or slides: as, the runner or keel of a sleigh or a skate.n. In molding: A channel cut in the sand of a mold to allow molted metal to run from the furnace to the space to be filled in the mold.n. The small mass of metal left in this channel, which shows, when the mold is removed, as a projection from the casting. See jet, 4 .n. In bookbinding, the front board of the plow-press, used in cutting edges.n. plural In printing: The friction-rollers in the ribs of a printing-press, on which the bed slides to and from impression.n. A line of corks put on a form of type to prevent the inking-rollers from sagging, and over-coloring the types.n. The slide on an umbrella-stick, to which the ribs or spreaders are pivoted.n. In gunpowder-manuf., same as runner-ball.n. In iron-founding, soda-manuf., and other industries in which fusion is a necessary operation, a congealed piece of metal or material which in the molten state has run out of a mold or receptacle, and become waste until remelted.n. In rope-making, a steel plate having three holes concentrically arranged, and used to separate the three yarns in laying up (twisting) a rope.n. A market-vessel for the transportation of fish, oysters, etc.n. Same as leather-jacket .n. The common jurel or hardtail, Carangus chrysos.n. A newsboy.n. In hunting, see the extract.n. A wheel for decorating pottery. See coggle. Also called decorating-wheel.n. plural The fibers that fray off the warp-yarn and collect behind the loom-reed in the process of weaving.
