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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coursed} (k?rst)); p. pr & vb n. {Coursing}.] 1. To run, hunt, or chase after to follow hard upon to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. --Shak. 2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as to course greyhounds after deer. 3. To run through or over The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Course \Course\ (k?rs), n. [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr currere to run. See {Current}.] 1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. --Acts xxi. 7. 2. The ground or path traversed; track; way The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. --Pennant. 3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. A light by which the Argive squadron steers Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore. --Dennham. Westward the course of empire takes its way --Berkeley. 4. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line or on one direction; as a ship in a long voyage makes many courses; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as one course of a race. 5. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action as the course of an argument. The course of true love never did run smooth. --Shak. 6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. By course of nature and of law. --Davies. Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. --Milton. 7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior. My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action --Shak. By perseverance in the course prescribed. --Wodsworth. You hold your course without remorse. --Tennyson. 8. A series of motions or acts arranged in order a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry. 9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order turn. He appointed . . . the courses of the priests --2 Chron. viii. 14. 10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments. He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. --Macaulay. 11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. --Gwilt. 12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as the fore course, main course, etc 13. pl (Physiol.) The menses. {In course}, in regular succession. {Of course}, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order {In the course of}, at same time or times during. ``In the course of human events.'' --T. Jefferson. Syn: Way road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Course \Course\, v. i. 1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire. 2. To move with speed; to race; as the blood courses through the veins. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: course n 1: education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes" [syn: {course of study}, {course of instruction}, {class}] 2: a connected series of events or actions or developments; "the government took a firm course" or "historians can only point out those lines for which evidence is available" [syn: {line}] 3: general line of orientation: "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: {trend}] 4: a mode of action "if you persist in that course you will surely fail" 5: a line or route along which something travels or moves: "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: {path}, {track}] 6: part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three course meal" 7: a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks" [syn: {row}] 8: a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport; "the course had only nine holes"; "the course was less than a mile" adv : as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: {naturally}, {of course}] [ant: {unnaturally}] v : move along of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave" [syn: {run}, {flow}]
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