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a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em. Beau. & Fl.

Like a runt; diminutive; mean.

r utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.

To dissatisfy; to disaffect; to anger. [Colloq.]

e, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

One who, or that which, grunts; specifically, a hog. "Bristled grunters." Tennyson.

In a grunting manner.

To grunt; to grunt repeatedly. [Obs.]

A young hog.

, as of a court or other body. 'T is pity we have not Burn's own account of that long sederunt. Prof. Wilson. Acts of sederunt (Scots Law), ordinances of the Court of Session for the ordering of processes and expediting of justice. Bell.

To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward. [Obs.] To sprunt up, to draw one's self up suddenly, as in anger or defiance; to bristle up. [Local, U.S.]

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Spirituous liquor. [Scot.] Burns.

A kind of worsted braid, about an inch broad. [Scot.] Jamieson.

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

rse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

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

To grunt to growl; to snarl; to murmur. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bears that groined coatinually. Spenser.

To steal; to rob. [Obs.] And in the brunt of seventeen battles since He lurched all swords of the garland. Shak.

s aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.