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Course
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) 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):
(n.) The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
(3):
(n.) 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.
(4):
(v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
(5):
(n.) Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
(6):
(n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
(7):
(v. t.) To run through or over.
(8):
(n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
(9):
(n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
(10):
(n.) The menses.
(11):
(v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
(12):
(v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
(13):
(n.) Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
(14):
(n.) The ground or path traversed; track; way.
(15):
(n.) 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.
(16):
(n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
(17):
(n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
(18):
(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Course'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/course.html. 1828.
