courses

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of course. Use this form when you mean more than one course.

   She signed up for three courses this semester.

   The restaurant served four delicious courses at the dinner.

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2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of course. Use this form with he, she, or it.

   Blood courses through the veins to reach every part of the body.

   The river courses swiftly down the rocky mountainside.

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3. 3
   nounobsoleteeuphemisticplural

   Monthly bleeding from a woman's body during her period.

   The midwife asked whether her courses had stopped that month.

   Nep [catnip] is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

   1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician EnlargedHere, courses means a woman's monthly period.

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