Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. (n.) A detective. 3. (n.) A messenger. 4. (n.) A smuggler. 5. (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. 6. (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones. 8. (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. 9. (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice. 10. (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel. 11. (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. 12. (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. 13. (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. 14. (n.) Any cursorial bird. 15. (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. 16. (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia RUNNER run'-er. See GAMES.

Multi-Version Concordance Runner (5 Occurrences) Job 9:25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, (WEB JPS BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV) Psalms 19:5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way. (BBE) Proverbs 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man. (See JPS) Proverbs 24:34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man. (See JPS) Jeremiah 51:31 One runner will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter: (WEB YLT RSV)