course

n. direction; part of a meal; series; layer; series of lessons or classes on a particular subject; unit of studies (especially on a university level)

v. hunt, pursue; run over; race

The word course can mean:Course (navigation), the direction of travelCourse (sail), the principal sail on a mast of a sailing vesselCourse (education), in the United States, a unit of instruction in one subject, lasting one academic termCourse of study, in the British Commonwealth, a programme of education leading to a degree or diplomaCourse of employment, a legal consideration of all circumstances which may occur in the performance of a person's jobCourse (medicine), a regime of medical drugs, or the speed of evolution of a diseaseCourse (music), a pair of adjacent strings tuned to unison or an octave, in a stringed instrumentCourse (dining), a single dish in a series of subsequently served dishes, constituting, for example, a three-course menu.Main course, the primary dish in a meal consisting of several coursesCourse (architecture), a continuous horizontal layer of similarly-sized building material, in a wallString course, a continuous narrow horizontal course or moulding which projects slightly from the surface of a wall
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n. course, race; running, journey, flight, journeying; errand; shopping, act of visiting stores and buying merchandise

(n.)
A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
  

(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.)
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.)
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.)
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.)
That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
  

(n.)
The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
  

(n.)
The ground or path traversed; track; way.
  

(n.)
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
  

(n.)
The menses.
  

(n.)
The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
  

(v. i.)
To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
  

(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. t.)
To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
  

(v. t.)
To run through or over.
  

(v. t.)
To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
  

In a joust, to run a single pass with lances or swords was a course. Barber and Barker suggest in their tournaments book that a course might also have been a 'bout'; a single fight determined in a variety of manners-counted blows struck or received; until an opponent was knocked to their knees; or perhaps until a particularly fine blow was struck. See also counted blows .