course

[[t]kɔrs, koʊrs[/t]]

n. v. coursed, cours•ing

1) a direction or route taken or to be taken

2) the path, route, or channel along which anything moves:

the course of a stream[/ex]

3) advance or progression in a particular direction

4) the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages:

in the course of a year[/ex]

5) the track, water, etc., on which a race is run, sailed, etc

6) a particular manner of proceeding:

a course of action[/ex]

7) a customary manner of procedure; regular or natural order of events:

the course of a disease[/ex]

8) a mode of conduct; behavior

9) a systematized or prescribed series:

a course of treatment[/ex]

10) edu a program of instruction, as in a college

11) edu a prescribed number of classes in a particular field of study

12) coo a part of a meal served at one time

13) navig. naut. the lowermost sail on a fully square-rigged mast

14) bui a continuous and usu. horizontal range of bricks, shingles, etc., as in a wall or roof

15) Often, courses. the menses

16) spo a charge by knights in a tournament

17) spo a pursuit of game with dogs by sight rather than by scent

18) spo

golf course

19) to run through or over

20) to chase; pursue

21) spo to hunt (game) with dogs by sight rather than by scent

22) spo to cause (dogs) to pursue game by sight rather than by scent

23) bui to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) in courses

24) to follow a course; direct one's course

25) to run, race, or move swiftly

26) spo to take part in a hunt with hounds

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- in due course of course

Etymology: 1250–1300; MEco(u)rs< AF co(u)rs(e), OF cours < L cursus a running, course =cur(rere) to run +-sus, var. of -tus suffix of v. action