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To flee, as from fear or danger. As from a bear a man would run for life. Shak.

A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.]

A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. Who has not been a runagate from duty Hare.

One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled Shak.

A weedling. [Obs.] Evelyn.

The wild radish. Dr. Prior.

Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A round; a step of a ladder; a rung. Duppa.

ensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14 [Written also runlet.]

Old Norse poetry expressed in runes. Runes were upon his tongue, As on the warrior's sword. Longfellow. Rune stone, a stone bearing a runic inscription.

A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths. Sir W. Temple.

the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme. Runic staff. See Clog almanac, under Clog. -- Runic wand, a willow wand bearing runes, formerly thought to have been used by the heathen tribes of Northern Europe in magical ceremonies.…

A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. To trace out to its marshy source every runlet that has cast in its tiny pitcherful with the rest. Lowell.

A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.

One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

See Rennet.

Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse;