one who, or that which, runs; a racer.-a detective.-a messenger.-a smuggler.-one employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.-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.-the rotating stone of a set of millstones.-a rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.-one of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.-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.-a trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.-the movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.-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.-any cursorial bird.-a movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.-a tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.