1. Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a
thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing
motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one
stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the
fine vessels of plants.
2. Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or
access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a
letter or book; to look into an apartment.
3. Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or
animation into a composition.
4. Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.
5. Indicating the passing of a thing from one form,
condition, or state to another; as, compound substances
may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is
convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more
easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce
many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by
evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into
the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears;
children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons
are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
(b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
{To run down a coast}, to sail along it.
{To run for an office}, to stand as a candidate for an
office.
{To run in} or {into}.
(a) To enter; to step in.
(b) To come in collision with.
{To run in trust}, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]
{To run in with}.
(a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
(b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
to run in with the land.
{To run mad}, {To run mad after} or {on}. See under {Mad}.
{To run on}.
(a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
year or two without a settlement.
(b) To talk incessantly.
(c) To continue a course.
(d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
{To run out}.
(a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
at Michaelmas.
(b) To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run
all out into legs.'' --Hammond.
(c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
digressions.
(d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
soon run out.
And had her stock been less, no doubt She must
have long ago run out. --Dryden.
{To run over}.
(a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
over.
(b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
(c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
{To run riot}, to go to excess.
{To run through}.
(a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
(b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
{To run to seed}, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
{To run up}, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
--Sir W.
Scott.
{To run with}.
(a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
streets ran with blood.
(b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
``Its rivers ran with gold.'' --J. H. Newman.
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak.
2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to
convey intelligence by sound.
From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1
Thess. i. 8.
3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a
certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as,
this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an
invention.
Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things
that do sound so fair? --Shak.
{To sound in} or {into}, to tend to; to partake of the nature
of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To
sound in damages, below.]
Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech.
--Chaucer.
{To sound in damages} (Law), to have the essential quality of
damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the
recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for
damages only, as trespass, and the like.
Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
--Milton.
2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
{To thrust away} or {from}, to push away; to reject.
{To thrust in}, to push or drive in.
{To thrust off}, to push away.
{To thrust on}, to impel; to urge.
{To thrust one's self in} or {into}, to obtrude upon, to
intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is
not invited or not welcome.
{To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel.
{To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times
thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak.
{To thrust together}, to compress.
He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam.
ix. 13.
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
{To eat}, {To eat in} or {into}, to make way by corrosion; to
gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by, which eats into
itself.'' --Byron.
{To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when
closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.