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Running; flowing. Cursive hand,a running handwriting.

An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaæ.

Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.

Running about; not stationary. [Obs.]

short, partly as a mark, and partly from a notion that the tail is necessary to a dog in running; hence, a dog not fit for sporting. Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Shak.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

A spear set as a prize in running. [Obs.] Chaucer.

mes, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

The act of running down; a lapse. [R.] Gauden.

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.

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…

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…

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.

ting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice. These men are too well acquainted with the chase to be flung off by any false steps or doubles. Addison.

A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.