(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.
   (q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
   (r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
   (s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
   (t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.

4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body. --Stillman (The Horse in Motion).

5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.

As things run, according to the usual order, conditions, quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or specification.

To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to slacken or loosen.

To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes. --Locke.

To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance.

To run away with.
   (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or elopement.
   (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs away with a carriage.

To run down.
   (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks, watches, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)