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(gcide) | Course \Course\ (k[=o]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.
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And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we
came to Ptolemais. --Acts xxi. 7.
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2. The ground or path traversed; track; way.
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The same horse also run the round course at
Newmarket. --Pennant.
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3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant
direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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A light by which the Argive squadron steers
Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
--Dennham.
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Westward the course of empire takes its way.
--Berkeley.
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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.
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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.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
--Shak.
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6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of
events according to natural laws.
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By course of nature and of law. --Davies.
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Day and night,
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course. --Milton.
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7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct;
behavior.
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My lord of York commends the plot and the general
course of the action. --Shak.
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By perseverance in the course prescribed.
--Wodsworth.
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You hold your course without remorse. --Tennyson.
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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.
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9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order;
turn.
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He appointed . . . the courses of the priests --2
Chron. viii.
14.
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10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its
accompaniments.
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He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of
several courses, paid court to venal beauties.
--Macaulay.
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11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of
the same height throughout the face or faces of a
building. --Gwilt.
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12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged
vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
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13. pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
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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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