Courses
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɔːsɪz/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Courses is a noun meaning plural of course.
Meaning
plural of course.
More Meanings
- third-person singular simple present indicative of course
- (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
Example Sentences
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.
Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”
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