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Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . .…

A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10. The paths of glory lead but to the gr…

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.

To scrape or beat with the forefoot. His hot courser pawed the Hungarian plane. Tickell.

To persist in any business or enterprise undertaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. Milton.…

e fixed and unmoved; to stay; to continue steadfastly; especially, to continue fixed in a course of conduct against opposing motives; to persevere; -- sometimes conveying an unfavorable notion, as of doggedness or obstinacy. If they persist in pointing their batteries against particular persons, no laws of war forbid t…

ss; appositeness; relevancy; suitableness. The fitness and pertinency of the apostle's discourse. Bentley.

To become perverted; to take the wrong course. [R.] Testament of Love.

Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.

The course of sciences read in the schools. Johnson.

tric person. Piece of ass vulgar term for a woman, considered as a partner in sexual intercourse

Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

To fix one's choise; -- with on or upon. Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy. Tillotson.

The course of plank laid horizontally over the timberheads of a vessel's frame.

The laying of the first courses of stone in a foundation. [Eng.]

Using specious arguments or discourse; as, a plausible speaker.

or sloping toward the front; as, the plongée of a parapet; the plongée of a shell in its course. [Sometimes written plonge.]

Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. "Here lies the point." Shak. They will hardly prove his point. Arbuthnot.

rsy; maintaining, or involving, controversy; controversial; disputative; as, a polemic discourse or essay; polemic theology.

The method by which any institution is administered; system of management; course.