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act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. Gwilt.

The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.

confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale.

er; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.] Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason. South. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.

A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudina…

Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. [Obs.] Drayton.

See Scorse. [Obs.]

A horizontal band in a building, forming a part of the design, whether molded, projecting, or carved, or in any way distinguished from the rest of the work.

ed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry. Angell. Burrill.

One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water to flow through.

ed in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

rd of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun. If after due summons any member absents himself, he is to be fined. Addison.

of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.