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Definition of Runnings
1. running [n] - See also: running
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runnings
Literary usage of Runnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"But the first sprightly runnings of his genius are undoubtedly here. Mr. Bumble is
in the parish sketches, and Mr. Dawkins the dodger in the Old-bailey ..."
2. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1887)
"This is especially advisable when first runnings and light oil are rectified
together. FIRST runnings. This term is applied to the first and lightest ..."
3. Coal-tar and Ammonia by Georg Lunge (1916)
"FIRST runnings (LIGHT NAPHTHA). This term is applied to the first and lightest
distillate from the tar-still which comes over together with some ..."
4. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"The crude distillates obtained directly from the tar are further purified and
separated into commercial products. The first runnings contain ..."
5. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"The distillate is commonly separated as follows: — First runnings, or "first
light oil," to 105°C. Light oil, to 210° C. Carbolic oil, to 240° C. Creosote ..."
6. Technical Methods of Chemical Analysis by Georg Lunge, Charles Alexander Keane, E. Adam, P. Aulich, T. L. Bailey, C. O. Bannister (1914)
"Washings or "runnings." (obtained from the precipitation of calcium tartrate)
... 200 cc of the runnings are evaporated to about 50 cc, boiled for several ..."
7. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, James Norris Brewer, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Frederic Shoberl, Joseph Nightingale, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, John Bigland, John Evans, Thomas Rees (1805)
"The pressing is done leisurely, that the liquor may draw off the clearer, and to
give the assistant time to keep the reservoir free : the first runnings ..."
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