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A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. The roaring torrent is deep and wide. Longfellow.

ries of consecutive operations. -- Train mile (Railroads), a unit employed in estimating running expenses, etc., being one of the total number of miles run by all the trains of a road, or system of roads, as within a given time, or for a given expenditure; -- called also mile run. -- Train of artillery, any number of…

An official who gives the orders on a railroad as to the running of trains and their right of way.

A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.

Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream.

Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line. -- Trans*ver"sal*ly, adv.

A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upper deck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sides curved inward convexly.

Running beneath the surface; hidden. [R.] "Undercurrent woe." Tennyson.

t falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

as, to undermine a wall. A vast rock undermined from one end to the other, and a highway running through it. Addison.

Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.

The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reëntrant angle.

To emit vapor or fumes. [R.] Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters. Bacon.

-- Velvet runner (Zoöl.), the water rail; -- so called from its quiet, stealthy manner of running. [Prov. Eng.] -- Velvet scoter. (Zoöl.) Same as Velvet duck, above. -- Velvet sponge. (Zoöl.) See under Sponge.

A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground. At the end of twelve months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. Dan. iv. 29. When Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the wat…

To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; -- said of road, a beach, etc.

A board running round, and serving as a facing for, the walls of a room, next to the floor; a mopboard.

A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.

A perennial cruciferous herb (Nasturtium officinale) growing usually in clear running or spring water. The leaves are pungent, and used for salad and as an antiscorbutic.