Into \In"to\, prep. [In + to.]

To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

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.

Note: Compare In.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

(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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.]

1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.'' --Dryden.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.]

[OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]

1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Eat \Eat\, v. i.

1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13.

2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

3. To make one's way slowly.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)