6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.
By course of nature and of law.
Davies.
Day and night,
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course.
Milton.
7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
Shak.
By perseverance in the course prescribed.
Wodsworth.
You hold your course without remorse.
Tennyson.
8. 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.
9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
He appointed . . . the courses of the priests
2 Chron. viii. 14.
10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties.
Macaulay.
11. (Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces
of a building. Gwilt.
12. (Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course,
etc.
13. pl. (Physiol.) The menses.
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.
Course
(Course), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
We coursed him at the heels.
Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
Pope.
Course
(Course), v. i.
1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the
flats of Lancashire.
2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. Shak.
