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To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare. Yet they adventured to go back. Bunyan, Discriminations might be adventured. J. Taylor.

Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.

In collision; entangled. Totten. To run afoul of, to run against or come into collision with, especially so as to become entangled or to cause injury.

de; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time. The gate would have been shut against her. Fielding. An argument against the use of steam. Tyndale.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

A festival in English country places, so called from the liquor drunk. "At wakes and ales." B. Jonson."On ember eves and holy ales." Shak.

All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person. To be, go, or run, on all fours (Fig.), to be on the same footing; to correspond (with) exactly; to be alike in all the circumstances to be considered. "This example is on all fours with the other." "No simile can go on all fours." Macaulay.…

allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Above; on top of. [Obs.] Fresh waters run aloft the sea. Holland.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

In a frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

To give extreme unction to. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.

in which the rings are separated, as some suppose, by the action of high winds upon the trunk; wind shake.

A forerunner; a precursor. [Obs.]

Running in a contrary direction. Hammond.

ich carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

taining to Appius. Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312 b. c.