Run. To run Cloisters, verb. phr. (Winchester).—A boy was said to run Cloisters when he obtained his remove from Junior Part to Senior Part at the end of Cloister-time (a period of ten or twelve weeks at the end of Long Half).
Run. See Race.
Runabout, subs. (Charterhouse).—An irregular form of football: formerly called Compulsory.
Running-stone, subs. (Stonyhurst).—A stone set at a distance from the CRICKET-STONE (q.v.), to and from which a batsman ran when making a score. See Stonyhurst-cricket.
1885. Stonyhurst Mag., ii. 85. The distance from the Cricket-stone to the RUNNING-STONE to be twenty-seven yards.
Rusticate, verb (common).—To send away a student for a time from a College or University by way of punishment; to SHIP (q.v.). Hence RUSTICATION.
1714. Spectator, No. 596. After this I was deeply in love with a milliner, and at last with my bedmaker, upon which I was sent away, or, in the university phrase, RUSTICATED for ever.
1779. Johnson, Life of Milton, par. 12. It seems plain from his own verses to Diodati, that he had incurred RUSTICATION; a temporary dismission into the country, with perhaps the loss of a term.
1794. Gent. Mag., p. 1085. And was very near RUSTICATION [at Cambridge], merely for kicking up a row after a beakering party.
1841. Lever, Charles O’Malley, lxxix. You have totally forgotten me, and the Dean informs me that you have never condescended a single line to him, which latter enquiry on my part nearly cost me a RUSTICATION.... Dear Cecil Cavendish, our gifted friend, slight of limb and soft of voice, has been RUSTICATED for immersing four bricklayers in that green receptacle of stagnant water and duckweed, yclept the “Haha.”