n. - The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
n. - The ground or path traversed; track; way.
n. - Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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.
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.
n. - Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
n. - Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
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.
n. - The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
n. - That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
n. - A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
n. - The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
n. - The menses.
v. t. - To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
v. t. - To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
v. t. - To run through or over.
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.
v. i. - To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.