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) 2.0 [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"; "historians can only
point out those lines for which evidence is available"
[syn: {line}]
3: facility consisting of 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"
4: a mode of action; "if you persist in that course you will
surely fail"; "once a nation is embarked on a course of
action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction
to take place" [syn: {course of action}]
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: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern
course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: {trend}]
7: part of a meal served at one time; "she prepared a three
course meal"
8: (construction) a layer of masonry; "a course of bricks"
[syn: {row}]
adv : as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge
bill" [syn: {naturally}, {of course}] [ant: {unnaturally}]
v 1: move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic"
2: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: {run}, {flow},
{feed}]
3: hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares"