course

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A sequence of events.

   • The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
   • Tilehurst would in the ordinary course have caught him up and they would have progressed companionably wheel by wheel for as far as their way lay together, discussing the simpler aspects of Tapsfield existence.
2. 2

   A path that something or someone moves along.

   • His illness ran its course.
3. 3

   The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

   • Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship.
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   1. 4

      Menses.

      • The bleeding body signifies as a shameful token of uncontrol, as a failure of physical self-mastery particularly associated with woman in her monthly "courses".
   2. 5

      A row or file of objects.

      • On a building that size, two crews could only lay two courses in a day.
   3. 6

      One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela)

      One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to be played together.

   4. 7

      To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

      • The oil coursed through the engine.
      • Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
   5. 8

      To run through or over.

   6. 9

      To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey

      To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

      • We coursed him at the heels.
   7. 10

      To cause to chase after or pursue game.

      • to course greyhounds after deer
   8. 11

      Ellipsis of of course.

      • "Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
      • Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]

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