To hunt; pursue; chase.
To cause to run; force to move with speed.
To run through or over: as, the blood courses the winding arteries.
To run; pass over or through a course; run or move about: as, the blood courses.
To engage in the sport of coursing. See coursing.
To dispute in the schools.
An obsolete spelling of coarse.
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An obsolete variant of curse.
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A running or moving forward or onward; motion forward; a continuous progression or advance.
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A running in a prescribed direction, or over a prescribed distance; a race; a career.
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The path, direction, or distance prescribed or laid out for a running or race; the ground or distance walked, run, or sailed over, or to be walked, run, or sailed over, in a race: as, there being no competition, he walked over the course.
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Hence The space of distance or time, or the succession of stages, through which anything passes or has to pass in its continued progress from first to last; the period or path of progression from begiuning to end: as, the course of a planet, or of a human life.
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The line or direction of motion; the line in which anything moves: as, the course of a projectile through the air; specifically (nautical), the direction in which a ship is steered in making her way from point to point during a voyage; the point of the compass on which a ship sails.
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In surveying, a line run with a compass or transit.
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The continual or gradual advance or progress of anything; the series of phases of a process; the whole succession of characters which anything progressive assumes: as, the course of an argument or a debate; the course of a disease.
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In tilting, a charge or career of the contestants in the lists; about or round in a tournament; hence, a round at anything, as in a race; a bout or set-to.
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Order; sequence; rotation; succession of one to another in office, property, dignity, duty, etc.
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Methodical or regulated motion or procedure; customary or probable sequence of events; recurrence of events according to certain laws.
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A round or succession of prescribed acts or procedures intended to bring about a particular result: as, a course of medical treatment; a course of training.