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Running down; decurrent.

In a decursive manner. Decursively pinnate (Bot.), having the leaflets decurrent, or running along the petiole; -- said of a leaf.

away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.

To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive. Lardner.

A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in

Harm. [Obs.] Robert of Brunne.

A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides. Diagonal bond (Masonry), herringbone work. See Herringbone, a. -- Diagonal built (Shipbuilding), built by forming the outer skin of two layers of planking, making…

Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together. [Obs.]

nto sugar. The influence of acids and alkalies on the diastatic action of saliva. Lauder Brunton.

ing out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. -- The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. "No inconvenient diet." Milton.

To run as a flood. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

A spendthrift. [Obs.] Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave Drant.

In a direct manner; in a straight line or course. "To run directly on." Shak. Indirectly and directly too Thou hast contrived against the very life Of the defendant. Shak.

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large d…

on, and gives measures to society. Addison. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. The sea is silent, the sea is discreet. Longfellow.

A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to the axis of the bore; -- called also dispart sight, and muzzle sight.

With nerves unstrung; weak. [Obs.] Spenser.

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.