Courageous Cour·a"geous adjective [ French courageux .] Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate.
Stow.

Syn. -- Gallant; brave; bold; daring; valiant; valorous; heroic; intrepid; fearless; hardy; stout; adventurous; enterprising. See Gallant .

Courageously Cour·a"geous·ly adverb In a courageous manner.

Courageousness Cour·a"geous·ness noun The quality of being courageous; courage.

Courant Cou·rant" adjective [ French, present participle of courir to run, Latin currere . Confer Current .] (Her.) Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.

Courant Cou·rant" noun [ French courante , from courant , present participle ] 1. A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

2. A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

Couranto Cou·ran"to noun A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

Courap Cou·rap" noun (Medicine) A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

Courb Courb adjective [ French courbe , from Latin curvus . See Curve , adjective ] Curved; rounded. [ Obsolete]

Her neck is short, her shoulders courb .
Gower.

Courb Courb intransitive verb [ French courber . See Curs .] To bend; to stop; to bow. [ Obsolete]

Then I courbed on my knees.
Piers Plowman.

Courbaril Cour"ba·ril noun [ French courbaril , from a South American word.] See Animé , noun

Courche Courche noun [ Confer Kerchief .] A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [ Scot.] [ Written also curch .] Jamieson.

Courier Cou"ri·er noun [ French courrier , from courre , courir , to run, Latin currere . See Course , Current .] 1. A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers , advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose.
Knolles.

2. An attendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.

Courlan Cour"lan noun (Zoology) A South American bird, of the genus Aramus , allied to the rails.

Course Course noun [ French cours , course , Latin cursus, from currere to run. See Current .] 1. The 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.

2. The ground or path traversed; track; way.

The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
Pennant.

3. Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.

A light by which the Argive squadron steers
Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore.
Dennham.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.
Berkeley.

4. Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes many courses ; a course measured by a surveyor between two stations; also, a progress without interruption or rest; a heat; as, one course of a race.

5. Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.

The course of true love never did run smooth.
Shak.

6. Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.

By course of nature and of law.
Davies.

Day and night,
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course .
Milton.

7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.
Shak.

By perseverance in the course prescribed.
Wodsworth.

You hold your course without remorse.
Tennyson.

8. 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.

9. The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.

He appointed . . . the courses of the priests
2 Chron. viii. 14.

10. That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.

He [ Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses , paid court to venal beauties.
Macaulay.

11. (Architecture) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.

12. (Nautical) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course , main course , etc.

13. plural (Physiol.) The menses.

In course , in regular succession. - - Of course , by consequence; as a matter of course; in regular or natural order. -- In the course of , at same time or times during. " In the course of human events." T. Jefferson.

Syn. -- Way; road; route; passage; race; series; succession; manner; method; mode; career; progress.

Course Course transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Coursed (k?rst)); present participle & verbal noun Coursing .] 1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.

We coursed him at the heels.
Shak.

2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

3. To run through or over.

The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
Pope.

Course Course intransitive verb 1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. Shak.

Coursed Coursed adjective 1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.

Courser Cours"er noun [ French coursier .] 1. One who courses or hunts.

leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound.
Hanmer.

2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [ Poetic.] Pope.

3. (Zoology) 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 Cour"sey noun [ Confer Old French corsie , coursie , passage way to the stern. See Course , noun ] (Nautical) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Coursing Cours"ing noun The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds.
Bacon

Court Court (kōrt) noun [ Old French court , curt , cort , French cour , Late Latin cortis , from Latin cohors , cors , chors , gen. cohortis , cortis , chortis , an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; co- + a root akin to Greek chorto`s inclosure, feeding place, and to E. garden , yard , orchard . See Yard , and confer Cohort , Curtain .] 1. 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.

The courts of the house of our God.
Ps. cxxxv. 2.

And round the cool green courts there ran a row
Of cloisters.
Tennyson.

Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
Macaulay.

2. The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace.

Attends the emperor in his royal court .
Shak.

This our court , infected with their manners,
Shows like a riotous inn.
Shak.

3. 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.

My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
Shak.

Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
Sir. W. Scott.

4. Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as, to hold a court .

The princesses held their court within the fortress.
Macaulay.

5. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

No solace could her paramour intreat
Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
Spenser.

I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Evelyn.

6. (Law) (a) The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. (b) 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. (c) A tribunal established for the administration of justice. (d) The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.

Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.
Shak.

7. The session of a judicial assembly.

8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.

9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.

Christian court , the English ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them. -- Court breeding , education acquired at court. -- Court card . Same as Coat card . -- Court circular , one or more paragraphs of news respecting the sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with such duty. [ Eng.] Edwards. -- Court day , a day on which a court sits to administer justice. -- Court dress , the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of a sovereign. -- Court fool , a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and nobles for their amusement. -- Court guide , a directory of the names and adresses of the nobility and gentry in a town. -- Court hand , the hand or manner of writing used in records and judicial proceedings. Shak. -- Court lands (Eng. Law) , lands kept in demesne, -- that is, for the use of the lord and his family. -- Court marshal , one who acts as marshal for a court. -- Court party , a party attached to the court. -- Court rolls , the records of a court. See Roll . -- Court in banc , or Court in bank , The full court sitting at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius . - - Court of Arches , audience , etc. See under Arches , Audience , etc. -- Court of Chancery . See Chancery , noun -- Court of Common pleas . (Law) See Common pleas , under Common . -- Court of Equity . See under Equity , and Chancery . -- Court of Inquiry (Mil.) , a court appointed to inquire into and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer. -- Court of St. James , the usual designation of the British Court; -- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms. -- The court of the Lord , the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church, or Christian house of worship. - - General Court , the legislature of a State; -- so called from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [ U.S.] -- To pay one's court , to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett. -- To put out of court , to refuse further judicial hearing.

Court Court transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Courted ; present participle & verbal noun Courting .] 1. To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.

By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
Macaulay.

2. To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.

If either of you both love Katharina . . .
Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
Shak.

3. To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.

They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
Prescott.

Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
De Quincey.

4. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

A well-worn pathway courted us
To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
Tennyson.

Court Court intransitive verb 1. To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting .

Court Court noun -- Court of claims (Law) , a court for settling claims against a state or government; specif., a court of the United States, created by act of Congress, and holding its sessions at Washington. It is given jurisdiction over claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes may advise the government as to its liabilities.

Court tennis Court" ten"nis (k?rt" t?n"n?s). See under Tennis .

Court-baron Court"-bar`on noun (Law) An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

Court-craft Court"-craft` noun The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

Court-cupboard Court"-cup`board noun A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. [ Obsolete]

A way with the joint stools, remove the court- cupboard , look to the plate.
Shak.

Court-leet Court"-leet` noun (Eng. Law) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone.

Court-martial Court`-mar"tial noun ; plural Courts-martial (k...rts`-). 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-martial Court`-mar"tial transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Court-martialed (- sh a ld); present participle & verbal noun Court- martialing .] To subject to trial by a court- martial.

Court-plaster Court"-plas`ter noun Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

Courtbred Court"bred` adjective Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

Courtelle Courtelle noun a wool-like fabric.
[ WordNet 1.5]

Courteous Cour"te·ous adjective [ Middle English cortais , corteis , cortois , rarely corteous , Old French corties , corteis , French courtois . See Court .] Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

A patient and courteous bearing.
Prescott.

His behavior toward his people is grave and courteous .
Fuller.

Courteously Cour"te·ous·ly adverb In a courteous manner.

Courteousness Cour"te·ous·ness noun The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.

Courtepy Cour"te·py noun [ Dutch kort short + pije a coarse cloth.] A short coat of coarse cloth. [ Obsolete]

Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy .
Chaucer.

Courter Court"er noun One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. Sherwood.

Courtesan Cour"te·san noun [ French courtisane , from courtisan courtier, Italian cortigiano ; or directly from Italian cortigiana , or Spanish cortesana . See Court .] A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

Lasciviously decked like a courtesan .
Sir H. Wotton.

Courtesanship Cour"te·san·ship noun Harlotry.

Courtesy Cour"te·sy noun ; plural Courtesies (-s...z). [ Middle English cortaisie , corteisie , courtesie , Old French curteisie , cortoisie , Old French curteisie , cortoisie , French courtoisie , from curteis , corteis . See Courteous .] 1. Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

And trust thy honest-offered courtesy ,
With oft is sooner found in lowly sheds,
With smoky rafters, than in tapestry walls
And courts of princes, where it first was named,
And yet is most pretended.
Milton.

Pardon me, Messer Claudio, if once more
I use the ancient courtesies of speech.
Longfellow.

2. An act of civility or respect; an act of kindness or favor performed with politeness.

My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you.
Shak.

3. Favor or indulgence, as distinguished from right; as, a title given one by courtesy .

Courtesy title , a title assumed by a person, or popularly conceded to him, to which he has no valid claim; as, the courtesy title of Lord prefixed to the names of the younger sons of noblemen.

Syn. -- Politeness; urbanity; civility; complaisance; affability; courteousness; elegance; refinement; courtliness; good breeding. See Politeness .

Courtesy Courte"sy (kûrt"sȳ) noun [ See the preceding word.] 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. [ Written also curtsy .]

The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual.
Golgsmith.

Courtesy Courte"sy intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Courtesied (-sĭd); present participle & verbal noun Courtesying .] 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 Courte"sy transitive verb To treat with civility. [ Obsolete]

Courthouse Court"house` (kīrt"hous`) noun 1. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [ U.S.]

2. A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States.

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House .
Barlett.

Courtier Court"ier (kōrt"yẽr) noun [ From Court .] 1. One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.

You know I am no courtier , nor versed in state affairs.
Bacon.

This courtier got a frigate, and that a company.
Macaulay.

2. One who courts or solicits favor; one who flatters.

There was not among all our princes a greater courtier of the people than Richard III.
Suckling.

Courtiery Court"ier·y noun The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson.

Courtlike Court"like` adjective After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

Courtliness Court"li·ness noun [ From Courtly .] The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

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