To run on Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly . (c) To continue a course . (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on . (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph .
Definitions
  1. (Print. ), to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph.

Webster 1913