<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a direction or route taken or to be taken.</li><li>Synonyms: passage, track, road, way.</li><li>the path, route, or channel along which anything moves: the course of a stream.</li><li>Synonyms: bearing.</li><li>advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement.</li><li>the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages: in the course of a year; in the course of the battle.</li><li>the track, ground, water, etc., on which a race is run, sailed, etc.: One runner fell halfway around the course.</li><li>a particular manner of proceeding: a course of action.</li><li>Synonyms: mode, method.</li><li>a customary manner of procedure; regular or natural order of events: the course of a disease.</li><li>Synonyms: career, process.</li><li>a mode of conduct; behavior.</li><li>a systematized or prescribed series: a course of lectures; a course of medical treatments.</li><li>a program of instruction, as in a college or university: a course in economics.</li><li>a prescribed number of instruction periods or classes in a particular field of study.</li><li>a part of a meal served at one time: The main course was roast chicken with mashed potatoes and peas.</li><li>Navigation: the line along the earth's surface upon or over which a ship, an aircraft, etc., proceeds: described by its bearing with relation to true or magnetic north.</li><li>a point of the compass.</li><li>Nautical: the lowermost sail on a fully square-rigged mast: designated by a special name, as foresail or mainsail, or by the designation of the mast itself, as fore course or main course.</li><li>Building Trades: a continuous and usually horizontal row of bricks, shingles, etc., as in a wall or roof.</li><li>Synonyms: layer, row.</li><li>one of the pairs of strings on an instrument of the lute family, tuned in unison or in octaves to increase the volume.</li><li>the row of stitches going across from side to side in knitting and other needlework (wale).</li><li>Often courses.</li><li>Older Use: the periodic flow of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus; a menstrual period.</li><li>a charge by knights in a tournament.</li><li>a pursuit of game with dogs by sight rather than by scent.</li><li>golf course.</li><li>a race.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) coursed, cours·ing: to run through or over.</li><li>to chase; pursue.</li><li>to hunt (game) with dogs by sight rather than by scent.</li><li>to cause (dogs) to pursue game by sight rather than by scent.</li><li>Masonry: to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) in continuous rows.</li><li>(used without object) coursed, cours·ing: to follow a direction, route, or path; direct one's path.</li><li>to run, race, or move swiftly: The blood of ancient emperors courses through his veins.</li><li>to take part in a hunt with hounds, a tilting match, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>