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noun

Runt n. (Written also rant)

(Zool.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; applied particularly to domestic animals.

(Zool.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.

A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; used opprobriously. "Before I buy a bargain of such runts, I'll buy a college for bears, and live among 'em."

The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "Neither young poles nor old runts are durable."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... sawed-off runt!" yelped Jim. "I been lettin' you shoot off your head so's you'll be good and sore afterward. I always wanted a piece of paper money any way—for a ...

— Copper Streak Trail • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... smoker of cigarettes is always a measly runt!" grunted Bruce Browning, from the big chair in which he had ensconced himself almost as soon as he came aboard, and which he had ...

— Frank Merriwell's Reward • Burt L. Standish

... one of the party was ticking off the horses by their numbers as they passed; "One, two, that's White Moth; they say she'll win; three, Red Rover; four, what's that? that's George L.; five, six, seven; just look at that little runt. What is it? Oh, Lucretia. Might as well run a big ...

— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser

... maluerunt, aboleri praecepimus. Dat. III. Kalend. Octob. Const. Cons. et Crispi, (321.) Idem. Aug. ad Maximium Praef Praet. Universa, quae scriptura Pauli continentur, recepta auctoritate firmanda runt, et omni veneratione celebranda. Ideoque sententiarum libros plepissima luce et perfectissima elocutione et justissima juris ratione succinctos in judiciis prolatos valere minimie dubitatur. Dat. V. Kalend. Oct. Trovia ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon

... tone of regret, to which I could only make reply by a partial negative and affirmative shake of my head, and committing it to the peculiar sagacity of her sex to understand what I wanted. A little, stout man, something like a runt, saw the position to which I was reduced, and, coming up to me, said in ...

— A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden - 2nd edition • W. A. Ross

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