Meaning

• A sequence of events.

  "The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another."

• A path that something or someone moves along.

  "His illness ran its course."

• The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.

  "Main course and mainsail are the same thing in a sailing ship."

• (in the plural, courses) Menses.

• A row or file of objects.

• One or more strings on some musical instruments (such as the guitar, lute or vihuela): if multiple, then closely spaced, tuned in unison or octaves and intended to played together.

Meaning

• To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).

  "Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries."

• To run through or over.

• To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.

• To cause to chase after or pursue game.

  "to course greyhounds after deer"