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   Course , n. [F. cours, course, L.  cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.]
   The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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   And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais.
   Acts xxi. 7.
   
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   The ground or path traversed; track; way.
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   The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
   Pennant.
   
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   Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
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   A light by which the Argive squadron steers
   Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
   Dennham.
   
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   Westward the course of empire takes its way.
   Berkeley.
   
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   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.
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   Motion considered with reference to manner; or duly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.
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   The course of true love never did run smooth.
   Shak.
   
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   Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
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   By course of nature and of law.
   Davies.
   
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   Day and night,
   Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
   Shall hold their course.
   Milton.
   
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   Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
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   My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
   Shak.
   
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   By perseverance in the course prescribed.
   Wodsworth.
   
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   You hold your course without remorse.
   Tennyson.
   
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   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.
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   The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
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   He appointed . . . the courses of the priests
   2 Chron. viii. 14.
   
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   That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
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   He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties.
   Macaulay.
   
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   (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
   Gwilt.
   
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   (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
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   pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
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   In course, in regular succession. -- Of course, by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order. -- In the course of, at same time or times during. “In the course of human events.”  
   T. Jefferson.
   Syn. -- Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.
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   Course, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed ); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
   To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
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   We coursed him at the heels.
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   To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
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   To run through or over.
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   The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
   Pope.
   
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3.       
   Course, 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.
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   To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
   Shak.
   
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