running

RUN'NING, ppr.

1. Moving or going with rapidity; flowing.

2. a. Kept for the race; as a running horse.

3. In succession; without any intervening day, year, &c.; as, to visit two days running; to sow land two years running.

4. Discharging pus or other matter; as a running sore.

RUN'NING, n.

1. The act of running, or passing with speed.

2. That which runs or flows; as the first running of a still or of cider at the mill.

3. The discharge of an ulcer or other sore.