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<A NAME="runabout">
<B>runabout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a light, open automobile or carriage with a single seat. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small motorboat. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who runs about from place to place, such as a vagabond or peddler. </DL>
<A NAME="runaction">
<B>run action,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Football.) a play in which the quarterback fakes a running play and drops back to pass. </DL>
<B>runaround, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) evasion or indefinite postponement of action, especially in regard to a request; avoidance. <BR> <I>Ex. Even those who would probably get visas hate to take the risk of getting a consular runaround (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>type set less than the full measure to permit the insertion of an illustration or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="runaway">
<B>runaway, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person or animal that runs away. <BR> <I>Ex. The runaway dragged the empty carriage behind him.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of running away; eloping. <BR> <I>Ex. The young couple's runaway caused great sadness to their parents.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>running with nobody to guide or stop it; out of control. <BR> <I>Ex. a runaway horse, a runaway car. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>done by runaways. <BR> <I>Ex. a runaway marriage.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>easily won; one-sided. <BR> <I>Ex. a runaway victory. The book turned out to be a runaway best seller (Time).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>escaped; fugitive. <BR> <I>Ex. runaway slaves.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="runawayshop">
<B>runaway shop,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plant moved to another site by the employer to escape local union demands. </DL>
<A NAME="runback">
<B>runback, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Football.) the run made by a player who has received the ball as a result of an opponent's kick or an intercepted pass. <BR> <I>Ex. His 86-yard run was a record for a Rose Bowl punt runback to a touchdown (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the area between the base line and the backstop on a tennis court or other playing area. </DL>
<A NAME="runciblespoon">
<B>runcible spoon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fork with three short, wide prongs, used as a spoon in eating ice cream and other semisolid food. </DL>
<A NAME="runcinate">
<B>runcinate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having coarse, toothlike notches or lobes pointing backward. Dandelion leaves are runcinate. </DL>
<A NAME="rundle">
<B>rundle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a rung of a ladder. <DD><B> 2. </B>a bar of a kind of pinion. <DD><B> 3. </B>a wheel; rotating part. </DL>
<A NAME="rundlet">
<B>rundlet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an old measure of liquid equal to about 18 gallons. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cask; small barrel. <BR> <I>Ex. ... twelve small rundlets of fine powder for our small-arms (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD> Also, <B>runlet.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="rundown">
<B>rundown, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) an account; summary. <BR> <I>Ex. a rundown of the week's news. The speaker gave a brief rundown on his career.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rundown">
<B>run-down, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>tired; sick. <BR> <I>Ex. If you are generally "run-down," ask your doctor about preventive measures against respiratory infections (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>falling to pieces; partly ruined. <BR> <I>Ex. a run-down building.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>that has stopped going or working. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Baseball.) the attempt to tag out a base runner caught off base between two players. <DD><B> 2. </B>decrease; decline. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a run-down in the labor force due to rapid mechanization (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rune">
<B>rune</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any letter of the Germanic alphabet used from about the 200's A.D. to about the 1200's. <DD><B> 2. </B>a mark that looks like a rune and has some mysterious, magic meaning. <BR> <I>Ex. Wise he was, and many curious arts, Postures of runes, and healing herbs he knew (Matthew Arnold).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a verse or sentence that has a magic meaning. </DL>
<A NAME="rune">
<B>rune</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an old Scandinavian poem or song. <BR> <I>Ex. Of the Troll of the Church they sing the rune By the Northern Sea in the harvest moon (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a poem; song; verse. </DL>
<A NAME="runed">
<B>runed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> inscribed with runes. </DL>
<A NAME="runestone">
<B>rune stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a stone having runic inscriptions. <BR> <I>Ex. Professor Hagen, philologist, made an intensive study of the Kensington rune stone (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rung">
<B>rung</B> (1), verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> a past tense and the past participle of <B>ring</B> (2). <BR> <I>Ex. The bell has rung.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="rung">
<B>rung</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a round rod or bar used as a step of a ladder. <BR> <I>Ex. The rung he was standing on broke leaving him dangling from the ladder. (Figurative.) Hard work and long hours are rungs in the ladder of success.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a crosspiece set between the legs of a chair or stool or as part of the back or arm of a chair. <BR> <I>Ex. The clerks sat on high stools with feet twisted over the rungs.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a spoke of a wheel. <DD><B> 4. </B>a bar of wood having a similar shape and use. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Scottish.) a stout staff; cudgel. </DL>
<A NAME="runic">
<B>runic</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of runes; written in runes; marked with runes. </DL>
<A NAME="runic">
<B>runic</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a rune. </DL>
<A NAME="runiform">
<B>runiform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the appearance of runes. </DL>
<A NAME="runin">
<B>run-in, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) a sharp disagreement; argument; quarrel; row. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Printing.) copy to be set starting on the same line and right after what comes before it. <DD><I>adj. </I> (Printing.) that is a run-in. </DL>
<B>runless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without runs. <BR> <I>Ex. a runless inning, a runless game of cricket.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="runlet">
<B>runlet</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small stream. (SYN) rivulet, runnel. </DL>
<A NAME="runlet">
<B>runlet</B> (2), noun. <B>=rundlet.</B></DL>
<A NAME="runnable">
<B>runnable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> suitable for the chase, as deer; warrantable. <BR> <I>Ex. His coat was in perfect condition, ... and he was a runnable deer, that is, of age and size sufficient for the chase (Richard Jefferies).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="runnel">
<B>runnel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small stream or brook; rivulet; runlet. <BR> <I>Ex. ... hearing no sound except ... the various gurgling noises of innumerable runnels (W. H. Hudson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small channel for water; gutter. </DL>
<A NAME="runner">
<B>runner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person, animal, or thing that runs; racer. <BR> <I>Ex. A runner arrived out of breath. The world's fastest runners can cover 100 yards in less than 10 seconds (Walter H. Gregg).</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>(Baseball.) a base runner. <BR> <I>Ex. The game was close with two out and runners at first and third.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Football.) a player who carries the ball. <DD><B> c. </B>a messenger. <BR> <I>Ex. a runner for a bank or brokerage house.</I> (SYN) courier. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who runs or works a machine, etc. <DD><B> 4. </B>either of the long narrow pieces on which a sleigh or sled slides. <DD><B> 5. </B>the blade of a skate. <DD><B> 6. </B>a long, narrow strip. <BR> <I>Ex. We have a runner of carpet in our hall and runners of linen and lace on our dressers.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a smuggler; person or ship that tries to evade somebody. <BR> <I>Ex. a blockade runner.</I> <DD><B> 8a. </B>a slender stem that takes root along the ground, thus producing new plants. Strawberry plants spread by runners. <BR> <I>Ex. Many plants produce runners and rhizomes that effectively extend the area they occupy (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a plant that spreads by such stems. <DD><B> 9. </B>any one of various climbing bean plants. <BR> <I>Ex. the scarlet runner.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>a raveled place. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a runner in her stocking, an affecting thinness to her ankles (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 11. </B>a support or groove along, on, or in which anything slides. <DD><B> 12. </B>the rotating part of a turbine. <DD><B> 13. </B>a jurel of the Atlantic coast of America. <DD><B> 14. </B>a person who tries to get business, as for a hotel or tradesman. <DD><B> 15. </B>a collector, agent, or the like, as for a bank or brokerage house. <DD><B> 16. </B>a channel along which molten metal runs from the furnace to the mold. <DD><B> 17. </B>the millstone which turns against a fixed stone in a grinding mill. </DL>
<A NAME="runnerbean">
<B>runner bean,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a climbing bean plant; runner. </DL>
<A NAME="runnerup">
<B>runner-up, </B>noun, pl. <B>runners-up.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a player or team that takes second place in a contest. </DL>
