<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to run<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of persons in haste<LI>of those who run in a race course</OL><LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of doctrine rapidly propagated<LI>by a metaphor taken from runners in a race, to exert one's self, strive hard<LI>to spend one's strength in performing or attaining something<LI>word occurs in Greek writings denoting to incur extreme peril, which it requires the exertion of all one's effort to overcome</OL></OL>