courrort

Same as curr or. course1 (kōrs), n. [ The somer Castyll Chambers, Dores, wyndows, and all maner of bordys, that the wynde myght have hys cowse att more large. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 62. Pray that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified. 2 Thes. iii. 1. Then let me go, and hinder not my course : I'll be as patient as a gentle stream, And make a pastime of each weary step. Thither his course he bends. Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 7. Milton, P. L., iii. 573. IMG:content-1477.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1478.png:[blocks in formation] Day and night, Seed time and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course. Milton , P. L., xi. 900. The guilt thereof [sin] and punishment to all, By course of nature and of law, doth pa . Sir J. Davies, Immortal. of Soul, viii. Or as the man whom she doth now advance, Upon her gracious mercy-seat to sit, Doth common things of course and circumstance To the reports of common men commit. Sir J. Davies, Nosce Teipsum. 11. A round or succe ion of prescribed acts or procedures intended to bring about a particular result: as, a course of medical treatment; a course of training. My Lord continues still in a Course of Physic at Dr. Napier's. Howell , Letters, I. v. 19. 12. A series or succe ion in a specified or systematized order; in schools and colleges, a prescribed order and succe ion of lectures or studies, or the lectures or studies themselves; curriculum: as, a course of lectures in chemistry, or of study in law. thing pa es or has to pa in its continued progre from first to last; the period or path of progre ion from beginning to end: as, the course of a planet, or of a human life. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by turns, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 549. There are many men in this country who, in the course of ten years, have married as many as twenty, thirty, or more wives. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 229. Through the long course of centuries during which time was reckoned in Olympiads, the triumphs of war were forever supplying the motive and the material for new dedications at Olympia, most of which were in the form of statues of Zeus and other deities. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 325. 5. The line or direction of motion; the line in which anything moves: as, the course of a projectile through the air; specifically ( naut . ), the direction in which a ship is steered in making her way from point to point during a voyage; the point of the compa on which a ship sails. When referred to the true meridian, it is called the true course which the ship is steered, it is called the compa course. se; when to the position of the magnetic needle by 6. In surv., a line run with a compa or transit.-7. The continual or gradual advance or progre of anything; the series of phases of a proce ; the whole succe ion of characters which anything progre ive a umes: as, the course of an argument or a debate; the course of a disease. The course of true love never did run smooth. Shak., M. N. D., i. 1. Time rolls his ceasele course. Scott , L. of the L., iii. 1. The course of this world is anything but even and uniforın. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 18. 8. In tilting, a charge or career of the contestants in the lists; a bout or round in a tournament; hence, a round at anything, as in a race; a bout or set-to. And Agrauadain brake his spere on Segramours hauberke at the same cours . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 569. The bull is brought to the bailiff's house in Tutbury, and there collared and roped, and so conveyed to the bull-ring in the High-street, where he is baited with dogs; the first course allotted for the king, the second for the honour of the town, and the third for the king of the minstrels. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 374. On the 14th day of May they engage to meet at a place appointed by the king, armed with the "harneis thereunto accustomed, to kepe the fielde, and to run with every commer eight courses . Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 458. 9. Order; sequence; rotation; succe ion of one to another in office, property, dignity, duty, etc. A course of learning and ingenious studies. Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 13. A line of procedure; method; way; manner of proceeding; measure: as, it will be nece ary to try another course with him. Now see the cours howe thai [bees] goo to and froo. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 147. If she consent send her Son [the Duke of taken. Baker , Chronicles, p. 222. They refuse to doe it [pay], till they see shiping provided, or a course taken for it. John Robinson, quoted in Bradford's Plymouth [Plantation, p. 48. 14. A line of conduct or behavior; way of life; personal behavior or conduct: usually in the plural, implying reprehensible conduct. I am grieved it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, ii. 1. And because it is impo ible to defend their [sinners'] extravagant courses by Reason, the only way left for them is to make Satyrical Invectives against Reason. Stilling fleet, Sermons, II. iii. You held your course without remorse. Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 15. That part of a meal which is served at once and separately, with its accompaniments, whether consisting of one dish or of several: as, a course of fish; a course of game; a dinner of four courses. They. com in to the halle as Kay hadde sette the firste cours be-fore the kynge Arthur. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 619. 16. A row, round, or layer. Specifically- (a) In height throughout the face or faces, or any smaller arch i building, a continuous range of stones or bricks of the same tectural division of a building. Betweene euery course of bricks there lieth a course of mattes made of canes. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 269. The lower courses of the grand wall, composed of huge blocks of gray conglomerate limestone, still remain. B. Taylor , Lands of the Saracen, p. 74. (b) In cutlers ' work , each stage of grinding or polishing on the cutler's lap or wheel. (c) In mining , a lode or vein. They (veins of lead] often meet, and frequently form at such points of intersection courses of ore. Ure, Dict., III. 271. (d) Each series of teeth or burs along the whole length of a file. The first cutting forms a series of sharp ridges called the first course ; the second cutting, acro these ridges, forms a series of teeth called the second course. 17. In musical instruments, a set of strings tuned in unison. They are so arranged as to be struck one or more at a time, according to the fullne of tone desired.-18. Naut ., one of the sails bent to a ship's lower yards: as, the mainsail, called the main course , the foresail or fore course , and the cro -jack or mizzen course . See cut under sail . The men on the topsail yards came down the lifts to the yard-arms of the courses . R. H. Dana, Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 204. The fore course was given to her, which helped her a little; but she hardly held her own against the sea. R. H. Dana , Jr. , Before the Mast, p. 235. 19. pl . The menstrual flux; catamenia. - 20. In coursing , a single chase; the chase of a hare. as by greyhounds. IMG:content-1479.png:[blocks in formation] So accustomed to his freaks and follies that she viewed them all as matters of course. Hawthorne, Twice-Told Tales, I. 176. Clerk of the course. Same as cursitor , 1. - Course of a plinth, the continuity of a plinth in the face of a wall.. - Course of crops, the rotation or succe ion in which crops follow one another in a prescribed system of planting. Course of exchange, in com. See exchange . Course of nature, the natural succe ion of events; the inevitable sequence of natural phenomena, as of the seasons, of birth, growth, and death, etc. - Course of the face of an arch, in arch ., that face of the arch-stones in which their joints radiate from the center. - Course of trade. (a) Cla of merchandise; article or commodity traded in. He gave it [£500] to this colony to be laid out in cattle, and other course of trade , for the poor. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 90. (b) Line of busine or busine transactions. In our letter we also mentioned a course of trade our merchants had entered into with La Tour. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 220. (c) The regular succe ion of events in the conduct of busine . (d) The tendency or direction of trade or of the markets. In course. (a) In due or usual order. The next meeting was in course to be at New Haven in the beginning of September. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 301. (b) Of course. [Colloq. or prov.] - In course of, during the progre of; in proce of; undergoing. They [volunteers to serve a sufficient time] will main tain the public interests while a more permanent force shall be in course of preparation. Jefferson, Works, VIII. 69. Margin of a course. See margin. Of course, by consequence; in regular or natural order; in the common manner of proceeding; without special or exceptional direction or provision, and hence, as was expected; naturally; in accordance with the natural or determinate order of procedure or events: as, this effect will follow of course. They both prom is'd with many civil expre ions and words of course upon such occasions. Evelyn , Diary, Sept. 15, 1651. It was of course that parties should, upon such an occasion, rally under different banners. Story , Speech, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. Of course , the interest of the audience and of the orator Emerson, Eloquence. conspire. Ring course, in an arch, an outer course of stone or brick. of st Springing-course, in arch the horizontal courseke courset, to take steps or measures; decide or enter upon a course or a specific line of action or proceedings: as, he took the wrong course to bring them to terms. This they had heard of, and were much affected there with, and all the country in general, and took course (the elders agreeing upon it at that meeting) that supply should be sent in from the several towns. mode. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 4. =Syn. 3. Way, road, route, pa age.-9. Rotation.12. Series, succe ion.-13. Procedure, manner, method, coursel (kōrs), v .; pret. and pp. coursed , ppr. coursing. [ My men shall hunt you too upon the start, And course you soundly. B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, iii. 2. Adown his pale cheek the fast-falling tears Are coursing each other round and big. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 57. The strange figures on the tapestry seemed to his J. H. Short house, John Ingles ant, i. 2. To cause to run; force to move with speed. Course them oft, and tire them in the heat. bewildered fancy to course each other over the walls. May , tr. of Virgil's Georgics. 3. To run through or over: as, the blood courses the winding arteries. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Rapid as fire Coursing a train of gunpowder. Pope. Words worth, Eccles. Sonnets, iii. 8. II. in trans. 1. To run; over or through a course; run or move about: as, the blood IMG:content-1480.jpg:[blocks in formation] Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. The subject most at heart, more near and near. Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter. 1312 He rode out to the downs, to a gentleman who had courteously sent him word that he was coursing with greyhounds. J. H. Short house, John Ingles ant, i. 3t. To dispute in the schools. Davies. course2+, a. An obsolete spelling of coarse. course3t, v. and n. An obsolete variant of cursel. course4t, v. t. [Early mod. E. also coresen, Here be the best coresed hors, That ever yet sawe I me. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 62). Arranged in courses.- kind of masonry in which the See course , n . , 16 (а). coursed (kõrst), a. Coursed masonry, that stones are laid in courses. courser1 (kōr'sėr), n. [ corsour, curser, cowrcer, corsiere, F. course, etc., a course, running: see course1, n. Cf. L. cursor, a runner, LL. cursor i us, pertaining to a runner: see cursory, Cursores.] 1. A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse: used chiefly in poetry. And Merlin rode on a grete grey courser and bar the baner of kynge Arthur be-fore all the hoste. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 585. "Take hym a gray courser ," sayd Robyn, "And a sadell newe." Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 58). The impatient courser pants in every vein. Pope , Windsor Forest, 1. 151. 2. One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing. A leash is a leathern thong by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser leads his greyhound. 31. A discourser; a disputant. Sir T. Hanmer. IMG:content-1481.png:[blocks in formation]