"ra`mfos the crooked beak of birds of prey, to roam.] To make uneven; to form into irregular inequalities; to
wrinkle; to crumple; as, to rumple an apron or a cravat.
They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your
fairest assignats.
Burke. Rumple
(Rum"ple), n. A fold or plait; a wrinkle. Dryden.
Rumpled
(Rum"pled) a. Wrinkled; crumpled. Pope.
Rumpless
(Rump"less) a. Destitute of a rump.
Rumply
(Rum"ply) a. Rumpled. Carlyle.
Rumpus
(Rum"pus) n. A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [Colloq.]
Rumseller
(Rum"sell`er) n. One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who
sells spirituous beverages at retail.
Run
(Run) v. i. [imp. Ran or Run; p. p. Run; p. pr. & vb. n. Running.] [OE. rinnen, rennen AS.
rinnan to flow and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn, p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen,
OS. & OHG. rinnan, G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, ränna, Dan. rinde, rende,
Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr. to stir up, rouse, Skr. or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf.
Rival). &radic11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet.]
1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; — said of
things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to
move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: —
2. Of voluntary or personal action: (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
Chaucer. (b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
As from a bear a man would run for life.
Shak. (c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
My conscience will serve me to run from this jew.
Shak. (d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may
obtain.
1 Cor. ix. 24. (e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; — often with in or
into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
Addison. (f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle. (g) To pass or go
quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
Addison.
