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Definition of On
On Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come
unto a quiet rode [road]. --Spenser.
On, or Upon, the road, traveling or passing over a
road; coming or going; on the way.
My hat and wig will soon be here, They are upon the
road. --Cowper.
Road agent, a highwayman, especially on the stage routes of
the unsettled western parts of the United States; -- a
humorous euphemism. [Western U.S.]
The highway robber -- road agent he is quaintly
called. --The century.
Road book, a quidebook in respect to roads and distances.
Road metal, the broken, stone used in macadamizing roads.
Road roller, a heavy roller, or combinations of rollers,
for making earth, macadam, or concrete roads smooth and
compact. -- often driven by steam.
Road runner (Zo["o]l.), the chaparral cock.
Road steamer, a locomotive engine adapted to running on
common roads.
To go on the road, to engage in the business of a
commercial traveler. [Colloq.]
To take the road, to begin or engage in traveling.
To take to the road, to engage in robbery upon the
highways.
Syn: Way; highway; street; lane; pathway; route; passage;
course. See Way.
on (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.
To run down a coast, to sail along it.
To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an
office.
To run in or into.
(a) To enter; to step in.
(b) To come in collision with.
To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.]
To run in with.
(a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker.
(b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as,
to run in with the land.
To run mad, To run mad after or on. See under Mad.
To run on.
(a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a
year or two without a settlement.
(b) To talk incessantly.
(c) To continue a course.
(d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with
sarcasm; to bear hard on.
(e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without
making a break or beginning a new paragraph.
To run out.
(a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out
at Michaelmas.
(b) To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run
all out into legs.' --Hammond.
(c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful
digressions.
(d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become
extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will
soon run out.
And had her stock been less, no doubt She must
have long ago run out. --Dryden.
To run over.
(a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs
over.
(b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily.
(c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child.
To run riot, to go to excess.
To run through.
(a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book.
(b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.
To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing
seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease
growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind.
To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as,
accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
--Sir W.
Scott.
To run with.
(a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the
streets ran with blood.
(b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance.
``Its rivers ran with gold.' --J. H. Newman.
on Rub Rub, v. i.
1. To move along the surface of a body with pressure; to
grate; as, a wheel rubs against the gatepost.
2. To fret; to chafe; as, to rub upon a sore.
3. To move or pass with difficulty; as, to rub through woods,
as huntsmen; to rub through the world.
To rub along or on, to go on with difficulty; as, they
manage, with strict economy, to rub along. [Colloq.]
On On On, adv. [See On, prep.]
1. Forward, in progression; onward; -- usually with a verb of
motion; as, move on; go on. ``Time glides on.'
--Macaulay.
The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.
--Shak.
2. Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the
son to the grandson, and so on.
3. In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep
on, take your ease; say on; sing on.
4. Adhering; not off; as in the phrase, ``He is neither on
nor off,' that is, he is not steady, he is irresolute.
5. Attached to the body, as clothing or ornament, or for use.
``I have boots on.' --B. Gonson.
He put on righteousness as a breastplate. --Is. lix.
17.
6. In progress; proceeding; as, a game is on.
Note: On is sometimes used as an exclamation, or a command to
move or proceed, some verb being understood; as, on,
comrades; that is, go on, move on.
On and on, continuously; for a long time together.
``Toiling on and on and on.' --Longfellow.
on Out Out, interj.
Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with
the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.
Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools ! --Shak.
Out upon or on! equivalent to ``shame upon!' ``away
with!' as, out upon you!
On Tapis Ta"pis, n. [F. See Tapestry.]
Tapestry; formerly, the cover of a council table.
On, or Upon, the tapis, on the table, or under
consideration; as, to lay a motion in Parliament on the
tapis.
on Tail Tail, v. t.
1. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely
to, as that which can not be evaded. [Obs.]
Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds,
wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and
was called on the next Parliament. --Fuller.
2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] --Hudibras.
To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends
into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a
timber.
