(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)
 

To run off, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace.

To run on (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.

To run out.
   (a) To thrust or push out; to extend.
   (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate.
   (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two bases.

To run the chances, or one's chances, to encounter all the risks of a certain course.

To run through, to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword. ``[He] was run through the body by the man who had asked his advice.'' --Addison.

To run up.
   (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender.
   (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)