Course (n.) Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.
Course (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.
Course (n.) The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.
Course (n.) That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.
Course (n.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.
Course (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
Course (n.) The menses.
Coursed (imp. & p. p.) of Course
Coursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Course
Course (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
Course (v. t.) To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
Course (v. t.) To run through or over.
Course (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.
Course (v. i.) To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.
Coursed (a.) Hunted; as, a coursed hare.
Coursed (a.) Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
Courser (n.) One who courses or hunts.
Courser (n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
Courser (n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.
Coursey (n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.
Coursing (n.) The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
Court (n.) An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
Court (n.) The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
Court (n.) The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
Court (n.) Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court.
Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
Court (n.) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
Court (n.) The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
Court (n.) A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
Court (n.) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
Court (n.) The session of a judicial assembly.
Court (n.) Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
Court (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
Courted (imp. & p. p.) of Court
Courting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
Court (v. t.) To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
Court (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
Court (v. t.) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
Court (v. i.) To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
Court-baron (n.) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
Courtbred (a.) Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
Court-craft (n.) The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
Court-cupboard (n.) A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.
Courteous (a.) Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
Courteously (adv.) In a courteous manner.
Courteousness (n.) The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.
Courtepy (n.) A short coat of coarse cloth.
Courter (n.) One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.
Courtesan (n.) A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.
Courtesanship (n.) Harlotry.
Courtesies (pl. ) of Courtesy
Courtesy (n.) Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.
Courtesy (n.) An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.
Courtesy (n.) Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy.
Courtesy (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees.
Courtesied (imp. & p. p.) of Courtesy
Courtesying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Courtesy
Courtesy (v. i.) To make a respectful salutation or movement of respect; esp. (with reference to women), to bow the body slightly, with bending of the knes.
Courtesy (v. t.) To treat with civility.
Courtehouse (n.) A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.
Courtehouse (n.) A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.
Courtier (n.) One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.
Courtier (n.) One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.
Courtiery (n.) The manners of a courtier; courtliness.
Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.
Courtlike (a.) After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.
Courtliness (n.) The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
Courtling (n.) A sycophantic courtier.
Courtly (a.) Relating or belonging to a court.
Courtly (a.) Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering.
Courtly (a.) Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious.
Courtly (adv.) In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.
Courts-martial (pl. ) of Court-martial
Court-martial (n.) A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
Court-martialed (imp. & p. p.) of Court-martial
Court-martialing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Court-martial
Court-martial (v. t.) To subject to trial by a court-martial.
Court-plaster (n.) Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
Courtship (n.) The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
Courtship (n.) The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.
Courtship (n.) Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
Courtship (n.) Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
Court tennis () See under Tennis.
Courtyard (n.) A court or inclosure attached to a house.
Couscous (n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.
Couscousou (n.) A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.
Cousin (n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.
Cousin (n.) A title formerly given by a king to a nobleman, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl.
Cousin (n.) Allied; akin.
Cousinage (n.) Relationship; kinship.
Cousin-german (n.) A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
Cousinhood (n.) The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
Cousinly (a.) Like or becoming a cousin.
Cousinry (n.) A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
Cousinship (n.) The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
Coussinet (n.) A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
Coussinet (n.) That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
Couteau (n.) A knife; a dagger.
Couth (imp. & p. p.) Could; was able; knew or known; understood.