course sb. (obs. or special uses are)
1.
current,
freq. of a river; of air
2H4 IV. v. 149
“found no of breath within
your majesty; of the
sun,”
a year H8 II. iii. 6, Sonn. lix. 6; so “yearly ,”
John III. i. 81.
2.
customary procedure,
habit Meas. III. ii. 244,
Troil. I. iii. 9,
Ham. III. iii. 83
“in our circumstance and
of
thought”
; esp. pl. habits, way of life, goings-on
Meas. II. i. 201, H5 I. i. 24, Oth. IV. i. 290.
3.
regular order or
process
Ado V. iv. 6
“the true of all the
question,”
John I. i. 113
“the of time,”
H5 v. Chor. 4,
Lr. III. vii. 101
“the old of death”
(=natural death), Oth. I. ii.
86; “in ”=in due course,
as a matter of course Meas. III. i.
260.
4.
line of action,
method of procedure (freq.) Tp. II. i. 295,
Lr. I. iii. 27
“To hold my very
course”
(=‘to take the same course as I
do’).
5.
point of the compass
Tp. I. i. 55*
“Set her two c-s off to sea
again”; some place a colon at “c-s,” which is then
taken=‘sails’.
6.
in bear-baiting, one
of a succession of attacks
Mac. V. vii. 2
“bear-like I must fight
the ,”
Lr. III. vii. 54.
