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inrunning
noun 2adj 1
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2ADJ.
current, little
VERB + INRUNNING
veiled
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adj
1
Running or flowing inward.
an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again
“Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across the course of the inrunning stream of the tide at top speed.
noun
1
The act or the place of entrance
2
an inlet.
And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove
On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.
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an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again
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“Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible au
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And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove
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On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.
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