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To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. Shak.

To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron.

A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging.

A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. Knight.

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

ild rose. -- Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block.

Skirts, taken collectivelly; material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]

The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.

The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.

To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.

Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

numbers. -- Snow gnat (Zoöl.), any wingless dipterous insect of the genus Chionea found running on snow in winter. -- Snow goose (Zoöl.), any one of several species of arctic geese of the genus Chen. The common snow goose (Chen hyperborea), common in the Western United States in winter, is white, with the tips of th…

us person; to slight designedly. To snub a cable or rope (Naut.), to check it suddenly in running out. Totten.

A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

elter. O, sir, have you taken soil here It is well a man may reach you after three hours' running. B. Jonson.

A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand. Cook.

A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.

A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.