Part 2505

<blockquote>By perseverance in the <b>course</b> prescribed. <i>Wodsworth.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>You hold your <b>course</b> without remorse. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; <as>as, a <ex>course</ex> of medicine; a <ex>course</ex> of lectures on chemistry.</as></def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.</def>

<blockquote>He appointed . . . the <b>courses</b> of the priests <i>2 Chron. viii. 14.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.</def>

<blockquote>He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several <b>courses</b>, paid court to venal beauties. <i>Macualay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>11.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.</def>

<i>Gwilt.</i>

<p><b>12.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; <as>as, the fore <ex>course</ex>, main <ex>course</ex>, etc.</as></def>

<p><b>13.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The menses.</def>

<cs><col>In course</col>, <cd>in regular succession.</cd> -- <col>Of course</col>, <cd>by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order.</cd> -- <col>In the course of</col>, <cd>at same time or times during. "<i>In the course of</i> human events."</cd></cs>

<i>T. Jefferson.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.</syn>

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<hw>Course</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coursed</er> <tt>(k?rst)</tt>); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coursing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.</def>

<blockquote>We <b>coursed</b> him at the heels. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To cause to chase after or pursue game; <as>as, to <ex>course</ex> greyhounds after deer</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To run through or over.</def>

<blockquote>The bounding steed <b>courses</b> the dusty plain. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Course</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; <as>as, the sportsmen <ex>coursed</ex> over the flats of Lancashire</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To move with speed; to race; <as>as, the blood <ex>courses</ex> through the veins</as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

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<hw>Coursed</hw> <tt>(k?rst)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Hunted; <as>as, a <ex>coursed</ex> hare</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Arranged in courses; <as>as, <ex>coursed</ex> masonry</as>.</def>

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