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.
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.
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.
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