Part 454

(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.

Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.

Locke.

Little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason.

Shak.

(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our sovereign lord the king."

Bp. Sanderson.

(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.

Sir W. Temple.

Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself.

Knolles.

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(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.

If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves.

Mortimer.

(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

Bacon.

Temperate climates run into moderate governments.

Swift.

(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.

In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another.

I. Watts.

(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.

Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid.

Sir J. Child.