11. (Mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor
of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance
takes.
12. (Mus.) A roulade, or series of running tones.
13. (Mil.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the
double-quick, but with greater speed.
14. The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; — said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of
fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning.
15. In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; in
cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three
runs; the side went out with two hundred runs.
The "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run.
R. A. Proctor. 16. A pair or set of millstones.
At the long run, now, commonly, In the long run, in or during the whole process or course of things
taken together; in the final result; in the end; finally.
[Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run.
J. H. Newman. —
Home run. (a) A running or returning toward home, or to the point from which the start was made.
Cf. Home stretch. (b) (Baseball) See under Home. — The run, or The common run, etc., ordinary
persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current,
course, or kind.
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.
Walpole.
Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of
his own vast superiority to the common run of men.
Prof. Wilson.
His whole appearance was something out of the common run.
W. Irving. —
To let go by the run (Naut.), to loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a
sail.
Run
(Run), a.
1. Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
2. Smuggled; as, run goods. [Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.
Run steel, malleable iron castings. See under Malleable. Raymond.
