coursing Definition

course
noun

1. The path in which anyone or anything moves.

Thesaurus: route, passage, path, trajectory, way.
2. A direction taken or planned.

Example: go off course
3. The channel of a river, etc.
4. The normal progress of something.
5. The passage of a period of time.

Example: in the course of the next year
6. A line of action.

Example: Your best course is to wait
7a. A series of lessons, etc; a curriculum;
7b. The work covered in such a series.
8. A prescribed treatment, eg medicine to be taken, over a period.
9. Any of the successive parts of a meal.
10. The ground over which a game is played or a race run.

Example: golf course
Example: obstacle course
11. building.
A single row of bricks or stones in a wall, etc.

verb coursed, coursing

intr
1. To move or flow.
2. To hunt (hares, etc) using dogs.

Derivative: coursing
noun

The hunting of hares using dogs.

Idiom: in the course of something

While doing it; during it.
Thesaurus: while, during, when.

Idiom: in the course of time

Eventually.

Idiom: in due course

At the appropriate or expected time.

Idiom: a matter of course

A natural or expected action or result.

Idiom: of course

As expected.

Naturally; certainly; without doubt
Example: Am I coming to the cinema tonight? Of course!
Thesaurus: certainly, definitely, naturally, no doubt, undoubtedly, obviously, surely, indeed.

Admittedly.
Example: I was annoyed that she hadn't finished the job although, of course, it was only her first day

Idiom: stay the course

To endure to the end.

Etymology: 13c: from French cours, from Latin currere to run.