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a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 57 Vnmesurable..rennyng out of blood..comeþ of openynge of veynes þat springiþ out of þe lyuour.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. xv. 2 A man that suffrith the rennyng out [a1382 E.V. fluxe] of seed, schal be vncleene.

a1500 Twelve Profits of Tribulation (Rawl.) in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 399 (MED) Tribulacions constreynen þe hert to turne into hym-selfe, & þe mo aduersitees þat ben aboute hym, þe fewer he hathe of rennyngis-oute fro hym-selfe.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Procursus,..a course or runnyng oute of souldiours to skyrmyshe with their enemies.

1615 R. Rogers Comm. Bk. Judges lxxxiv. 747 Wee see in the running out of the houreglasse, that [etc.].

1666 S. Pepys Diary 5 Jan. (1972) VII. 4 The..running-out of Cawse ways into the River.

1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel 226 As it is usual with the Prophets, there is a running out from the Temporal deliverance of the Jews to the Spiritual deliverance.

1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May 3 He run himself out of several hundred Pounds... The Reason they assigned me for his Running out was, [etc.]

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 699 The finery furnace, or running out fire.., is a smelting hearth, in which..gray cast iron..is converted into white cast iron.

1891 Proc. 26th Ann. Meeting Western N.Y. Hort. Soc. 86 By ‘running out’ is meant the disappearance of the characteristics of any variety... Running out, therefore, is not necessarily deterioration.

1904 U.S. Patent 771,829 1/1 The running out or recuperation of the gun will be accomplished without shock or jar.

1949 C. C. Lindegren Yeast Cell xxvii. 2 The degeneration or ‘running out’ of hybrids showing heterosis has been one of the principal problems of hybrid vigor.

2008 D. L. Carper et al. Understanding Law (ed. 5) viii. 373/2 Cannot be enforced..because of the running out of a statute of limitations.