Run·ning a.
 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse: (a) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. (b) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
 2. Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.
 3. Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
 4. Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. “A running conquest.”
    What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?   --Hare.
 5. Bot. Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine.
 6. Med. Discharging pus; as, a running sore.
 Running block Mech., a block in an arrangement of pulleys which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or lowered.
 Running board, a narrow platform extending along the side of a locomotive.
 Running bowsprit Naut. Same as Reefing bowsprit.
 Running days Com., the consecutive days occupied on a voyage under a charter party, including Sundays and not limited to the working days. --Simmonds.
 Running fire, a constant fire of musketry or cannon.
 Running gear, the wheels and axles of a vehicle, and their attachments, in distinction from the body; all the working parts of a locomotive or other machine, in distinction from the framework.
 Running hand, a style of rapid writing in which the letters are usually slanted and the words formed without lifting the pen; -- distinguished from round hand.
 Running part Naut., that part of a rope that is hauled upon, -- in distinction from the standing part.
 Running rigging Naut., that part of a ship's rigging or ropes which passes through blocks, etc.; -- in distinction from standing rigging.
 Running title Print., the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.


 Gear n.
 1. Clothing; garments; ornaments.
    Array thyself in thy most gorgeous gear.   --Spenser.
 2. Goods; property; household stuff.
    Homely gear and common ware.   --Robynson (More's Utopia).
 3. Whatever is prepared for use or wear; manufactured stuff or material.
    Clad in a vesture of unknown gear.   --Spenser.
 4. The harness of horses or cattle; trapping.
 5. Warlike accouterments. [Scot.]
 6. Manner; custom; behavior. [Obs.]
 7. Business matters; affairs; concern. [Obs.]
    Thus go they both together to their gear.   --Spenser.
 8. Mech. (a) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively. (b) An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe. (c) Engagement of parts with each other; as, in gear; out of gear.
 9. pl. Naut. See 1st Jeer (b).
 10. Anything worthless; stuff; nonsense; rubbish. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
    That servant of his that confessed and uttered this gear was an honest man.   --Latimer.
 Bever gear. See Bevel gear.
 Core gear, a mortise gear, or its skeleton. See Mortise wheel, under Mortise.
 Expansion gear Steam Engine, the arrangement of parts for cutting off steam at a certain part of the stroke, so as to leave it to act upon the piston expansively; the cut-off. See under Expansion.
 Feed gear. See Feed motion, under Feed, n.
 Gear cutter, a machine or tool for forming the teeth of gear wheels by cutting.
 Gear wheel, any cogwheel.
 Running gear. See under Running.
 To throw in gear or To throw out of gear Mach., to connect or disconnect (wheelwork or couplings, etc.); to put in, or out of, working relation.