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Course n.
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.
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.”
Syn: -- Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.
of course
adv : as might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge
bill" [syn: naturally, course] [ant: unnaturally]