Course

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Course, n. [F. cours, course, L. cursus, fr. currere to run. See Current.].

•  The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.  [1913 Webster]

  "And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais."  [1913 Webster]
•  The ground or path traversed; track; way.  [1913 Webster]

  "The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket."  [1913 Webster]
•  Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.  [1913 Webster]

  "A light by which the Argive squadron steers
  Their silent course to Ilium's well known shore."  [1913 Webster]

  "Westward the course of empire takes its way."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  Motion considered with reference to manner; or derly progress; procedure in a certain line of thought or action; as, the course of an argument.  [1913 Webster]

  "The course of true love never did run smooth."  [1913 Webster]
•  Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws.  [1913 Webster]

  "By course of nature and of law."  [1913 Webster]

  "Day and night,
  Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
  Shall hold their course."  [1913 Webster]
•  Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.  [1913 Webster]

  "My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action."  [1913 Webster]

  "By perseverance in the course prescribed."  [1913 Webster]

  "You hold your course without remorse."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn.  [1913 Webster]

  "He appointed . . . the courses of the priests"  [1913 Webster]
•  That part of a meal served at one time, with its accompaniments.  [1913 Webster]

  "He [Goldsmith] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties."  [1913 Webster]
•  A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building.  Gwilt.  [1913 Webster]
•  The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  The menses.  [1913 Webster]

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, v. t. 

•  To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.  [1913 Webster]

  "We coursed him at the heels."  [1913 Webster]
•  To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.  [1913 Webster]
•  To run through or over.  [1913 Webster]

  "The bounding steed courses the dusty plain."  [1913 Webster]

Course, v. i. 

•  To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.  [1913 Webster]
•  To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Course, n. & v.
--n.
1 a continuous onward movement or progression.
2 a a line along which a person or thing moves; a direction taken (has changed course; the course of the winding river). b a correct or intended direction or line of movement. c the direction taken by a ship or aircraft.
3 a the ground on which a race (or other sport involving extensive linear movement) takes place. b a series of fences, hurdles, or other obstacles to be crossed in a race etc.
4 a a series of lectures, lessons, etc., in a particular subject. b a book for such a course (A Modern French Course).
5 any of the successive parts of a meal.
6 Med. a sequence of medical treatment etc. (prescribed a course of antibiotics).
7 a line of conduct (disappointed by the course he took).
8 Archit. a continuous horizontal layer of brick, stone, etc., in a building.
9 a channel in which water flows.
10 the pursuit of game (esp. hares) with hounds, esp. greyhounds, by sight rather than scent.
11 Naut. a sail on a square-rigged ship (fore course; main course).
--v.
1 intr. (esp. of liquid) run, esp. fast (blood coursed through his veins).
2 tr. (also absol.) a use (hounds) to hunt. b pursue (hares etc.) in hunting.

Idiom

the course of nature ordinary events or procedure. in course of in the process of. in the course of during. in the course of time as time goes by; eventually. a matter of course the natural or expected thing. of course naturally; as is or was to be expected; admittedly. on (or off) course following (or deviating from) the desired direction or goal. run (or take) its course (esp. of an illness) complete its natural development.

Derivative

courser n. (in sense 2 of v.).

Etymology

ME f. OF cours f. L cursus f. currere curs- run

THESAURUS

Course

Brownian movement, Indian file, MO, Zeitgeist, academic specialty, act, adit, advance, advancement, advancing, affluence, afflux, affluxion, agora, aim, air lane, algorithm, ambit, amphitheater, angular motion, antepast, approach, aqueduct, archery ground, area, arena, array, arsis, articulation, ascending, ascent, assuredly, athletic field, attack, auditorium, axial motion, azimuth, backflowing, background, backing, backward motion, badminton court, band, bank, baseball field, basketball court, bear garden, bearing, beat, bed, bedding, belt, bent, billiard parlor, boil, bout, bowl, bowling alley, bowling green, boxing ring, broil, bull ring, buzz, by all means, campaign, campus, canal, canvas, career, casserole, catena, catenation, certainly, chain, chain reaction, chaining, channel, chase, circle, circuit, circus, class, classical education, climbing, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, commutation, commute, compass direction, concatenation, concourse, condensation trail, conduct, conduit, confluence, conflux, connection, consecution, continuum, contrail, core curriculum, couche, course of action, course of study, court, cover, cover ground, creed, cricket ground, croquet ground, croquet lawn, crosscurrent, crossing, cruise, culinary masterpiece, culinary preparation, current, curriculum, cycle, dart, dash, deck, definitely, defluxion, descending, descent, design, dessert, diamond, diastole, direction, direction line, discipline, dish, dispatch, ditch, do, dog, downbeat, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drift, driftage, drive, drone, duct, ebb, ebbing, egress, elective, endless belt, endless round, entrance, entree, entremets, excursion, execution, exit, expedition, fairway, falcon, fare, fare forth, fashion, fetch, field, file, filiation, flight, flight path, flit, flood, floor, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flowing, fluency, flush, flux, follow the hounds, football field, form, forum, forward motion, forwardal, forwarding, fowl, fry, furtherance, furthering, gallery, gamut, gang, general education, general studies, glacial movement, glaciarium, globe-trotting, go, go along, go hunting, go over, go-ahead, going, golf course, golf links, gradation, grand tour, gridiron, grill, ground, guiding principles, guise, gun, gush, gym, gymnasium, hall, hasten, hawk, heading, headway, helmsmanship, help, helping, hie, hippodrome, hound, hum, humanities, hunt, hunt down, hurry, hustle, ice rink, inclination, indubitably, infield, inflow, ingress, issue, itinerary, jack, jacklight, jaunt, journey, journeying, junket, lay, layer, lecture, ledge, leg, level, liberal arts, lie, line, line of action, line of direction, line of march, lineage, lines, links, lists, locale, locomotion, main current, main dish, mainstream, major, make, manner, manner of working, march, marketplace, mat, means, measure, measures, method, methodology, milieu, mill run, millrace, minor, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus operandi, monotone, motion, mounting, move, move along, move on, movement, moving, naturally, navigation, nexus, no doubt, oblique motion, obviously, ocean trip, of course, ongoing, onrush, onward course, open forum, orbit, order, orientation, outfield, outflow, outing, oval, overlayer, overpass, overstory, package tour, palaestra, parade ground, pass, pass over, pass through, passage, passageway, path, patrol, pattern, pendulum, perambulate, peregrinate, peregrination, pererrate, performance, periodicity, pilgrimage, piloting, piste, pit, place, plan, plan of action, plate, platform, playground, playing field, playroom, pleasure trip, plenum, plunging, ply, point, policy, polity, polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, portion, position paper, positively, pour, powder train, practice, precinct, primrose path, principles, prize ring, procedure, proceeding, process, program, progress, progression, progressiveness, promotion, proseminar, prowl after, public square, pulse, purlieu, putting green, quadrivium, quarter, queue, race, racecourse, racket court, radial motion, random motion, range, range over, rank, reconnoiter, recurrence, reflowing, refluence, reflux, refresher course, regression, regurgitate, reticulation, retrogression, revolution, ride to hounds, ring, rink, rising, road, roast, roll, roll on, rolling, rolling on, rotation, round, round trip, route, routine, row, rubberneck tour, run, rush, safari, sail, sally, sashay, scale, scamper, scene, scene of action, scenery, scent, scheme, scientific education, scoot, scope, scour, scour the country, scout, scurry, sea lane, sea trip, seam, second helping, seminar, sequel, sequence, series, service, serving, set, setting, shakedown cruise, shelf, shikar, shoot, shortcut, side dish, sideward motion, signs, single file, sinking, site, skating rink, soaring, soccer field, spate, specialty, spectrum, speed, spell, sphere, spoor, sport, sprint, squared circle, squash court, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stalk, start, steerage, steering, step, sternway, still-hunt, story, stratum, stream, stretch, string, study, style, subdiscipline, subject, subsiding, substratum, succession, superstratum, sure, surely, surge, surge back, swath, sweep, swing, system, systole, tack, tear, technical education, technique, tendency, tennis court, tenor, terrain, the drill, the general tendency, the how, the main course, the way of, theater, thesis, thickness, thread, tide, tier, tilting ground, tiltyard, time spirit, tone, topsoil, tour, tourism, touristry, traces, track, trade route, trail, train, traject, trajectory, trajet, transit, travel, travel over, travel through, traveling, traverse, trek, trench, trend, trip, trivium, trough, troughing, troughway, tunnel, turf, turn, undercurrent, underlayer, understory, understratum, undertow, undoubtedly, upbeat, upward motion, vapor trail, vector, voyage, wake, walk, water flow, watercourse, way, wayfare, wend, wheel, windrow, wise, wrestling ring, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

Course

Pursuit

VB pursue, prosecute, follow, run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after, shadow, carry on, engage in, set about, endeavor, court, seek, aim at, follow the trail, fish for, press on, run a race, chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound, tread on the heels, follow on the heels of, rush upon, rush headlong, ride full tilt at, run full tilt at, make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down, start game, tread a path, take a course, hold a course, shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course, play a game, fight one's way, elbow one's way, follow up, take to, take up, go in for, ride one's hobby, pursue, prosecute, follow, run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after, shadow, carry on, engage in, set about, endeavor, court, seek, aim at, follow the trail, fish for, press on, run a race, chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound, tread on the heels, follow on the heels of, rush upon, rush headlong, ride full tilt at, run full tilt at, make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down, start game, tread a path, take a course, hold a course, shape one's steps, direct one's steps, bend one's steps, course, play a game, fight one's way, elbow one's way, follow up, take to, take up, go in for, ride one's hobby.

Method

N method, way, manner, wise, gait, form, mode, fashion, tone, guise, modus operandi, MO, procedure, path, road, route, course, line of way, line of road, trajectory, orbit, track, beat, tack, steps, stair, staircase, flight of stairs, ladder, stile, perron, bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway, drawbridge, pass, ford, ferry, tunnel, pipe, door, gateway, channel, passage, avenue, means of access, approach, adit, artery, lane, loan, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor, back-door, back-stairs, secret passage, covert way, vennel, roadway, pathway, stairway, express, thoroughfare, highway, turnpike, freeway, royal road, coach road, broad highway, King's highway, Queen's highway, beaten track, beaten path, horse road, bridle road, bridle track, bridle path, walk, trottoir, footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk, crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway, cut, short cut carrefour, private road, occupation road, highways and byways, railroad, railway, tram road, tramway, towpath, causeway, canal, street, speedway, adv, how, in what way, in what manner, by what mode, so, in this way, after this fashion, one way or another, anyhow, somehow or other, by way of, via, in transitu, on the high road to, hae tibi erunt artes.

Order

N order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus ordo, music of the spheres, gradation, progression, series, subordination, course, even tenor, routine, method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness, rank, place, orderly, regular, in order, in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place, neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic, unconfused &c (confuse), arranged, in order, methodically, in turn, in its turn, by steps, step by step, by regular steps, by regular gradations, by regular stages, by regular intervals, seriatim, systematically, by clockwork, gradatim, at stated periods, natura non facit saltum, order is heaven's first law, order from disorder sprung, ordo est parium dispariumque rerum sua loca tribue.

Continuity

N continuity, consecution, consecutiveness, succession, round, suite, progression, series, train chain, catenation, concatenation, scale, gradation, course, ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent, procession, column, retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line of battle, array, pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race, ancestry, descent, family, house, line, line of ancestors, strain, rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team, suit, colonnade, continuous, continued, consecutive, progressive, gradual, serial, successive, immediate, unbroken, entire, linear, in a line, in a row, uninterrupted, unintermitting, unremitting, unrelenting (perseverence), perennial, evergreen, constant, continuously, seriatim, in a line, in succession, in turn, running, gradually, step by step, gradatim, at a stretch, in file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.

Conduct

N conduct, behavior, deportment, comportment, carriage, maintien, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance, dealing, transaction, business, tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity, generalship, statesmanship, seamanship, strategy, strategics, plan, management, husbandry, housekeeping, housewifery, stewardship, menage, regime, economy, economics, political economy, government, execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record, course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding, role, process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating, method, path, conducting, strategical, businesslike, practical, executive.

Arena

N arena, field, platform, scene of action, theater, walk, course, hustings, stare, boards, amphitheater, Coliseum, Colosseum, Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists, tiltyard, tilting ground, Campus Martins, Champ de Allars, campus, boxing ring, canvas, theater of war, seat of war, battle-field, battle-ground, field of battle, field of slaughter, Aceldama, camp, the enemy's camp, trusting place.

Time

N time, duration, period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season, the whole time, the whole period, space-time, course, snap, intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency, intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude, respite, era, epoch, time of life, age, year, date, decade, moment, glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time, arrow of time, river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time, scythe, continuing, on foot, permanent, while, whilst, during, pending, during the time, during the interval, in the course of, at that point, at that point in time, for the time being, day by day, in the time of, when, meantime, meanwhile, in the meantime, in the interim, ad interim, pendente lite, de die in diem, from day to day, from hour to hour, hourly, always, for a time, for a season, till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto, heretofore, prior to this, up to this point, the whole time, all the time, all along, throughout, for good, hereupon, thereupon, whereupon, then, anno Domini, A, D, ante Christum, A, C, before Christ, B, C, anno urbis conditae, A, U, C, anno regni, A, R, once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one day, once, time flies, tempus fugit, time runs out, time runs against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of the essence, time and tide wait for no man, ad calendas Groecas, panting Time toileth after him in vain, 'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion, rich with the spoils of time, tempus edax rerum, the long hours come and go, the time is out of joint, Time rolls his ceaseless course, Time the foe of man's dominion, time wasted is existence, used is life, truditur dies die, volat hora per orbem, carpe diem.

Layer

N layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment, table, tablet, dess, flagstone, board, plank, trencher, platter, plate, lamina, lamella, sheet, foil, wafer, scale, flake, peel, coat, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument, eschar, stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion, monolayer, bilayer, trilayer, lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform, layered, laminated, laminiferous, micaceous, schistose, schistous, scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous, foliated, foliaceous, stratified, stratiform, tabular, discoid, spathic, spathose, trilamellar, graphitic.

Motion

N motion, movement, move, going, unrest, stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir, evolution, kinematics, telekinesis, step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence, carriage, velocity, angular velocity, clip, progress, locomotion, journey, voyage, transit, restlessness, mobility, movableness, motive power, laws of motion, mobilization, moving, in motion, transitional, motory, motive, shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet, restless, nomadic, erratic, under way, on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march, eppur si muove, es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.

VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.

Navigation

VB sail, put to sea, take ship, get under way, set sail, spread sail, spread canvas, gather way, have way on, make sail, carry sail, plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean, walk the waters, navigate, warp, luff, scud, boom, kedge, drift, course, cruise, coast, hug the shore, hug the land, circumnavigate, ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam, swim, float, buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer, dive, wade, fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket, take wing, take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight, wing one's flight, wing one's way, aviate, parachute, jump, glide.

Direction

N direction, management, managery, government, gubernation, conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance, bossism, legislature, steerage, pilotage, reins, reins of government, helm, rudder, needle, compass, guiding star, load star, lode star, pole star, cynosure, supervision, superintendence, surveillance, oversight, eye of the master, control, charge, board of control, command, premiership, senatorship, director, chair, portfolio, statesmanship, statecraft, kingcraft, queencraft, ministry, ministration, administration, stewardship, proctorship, agency, director, directing, hegemonic, at the helm, at the head of, direction, bearing, course, vector, set, drift, tenor, tendency, incidence, bending, trending, dip, tack, aim, collimation, steering steerage, point of the compass, cardinal points, North East, South, West, N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE, rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation, line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march, alignment, allignment, air line, beeline, straight shoot, directed, directed towards, pointing towards, bound for, aligned, with alligned with, direct, straight, undeviating, unswerving, straightforward, North, Northern, Northerly, towards, on the road, on the high road to, en avant, versus, to, hither, thither, whither, directly, straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow, point blank, in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with, in a line with, full tilt at, as the crow flies, before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind, windwards, in the wind's eye, through, via, by way of, in all directions, in all manner of ways, quaquaversum, from the four winds, the shortest distance between two points is a stra.

Food

N food, eating, deglutition, gulp, epulation, mastication, manducation, rumination, gluttony, hippophagy, ichthyophagy, (appetite), mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard, gob, chops, drinking, potation, draught, libation, carousal, drunkenness, food, pabulum, aliment, nourishment, nutriment, sustenance, sustentation, sustention, nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed, fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board, commissariat, prey, forage, pasture, pasturage, fare, cheer, diet, dietary, regimen, belly timber, staff of life, bread, bread and cheese, comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta, grub, grubstake, prog, meat, bread, bread stuffs, cerealia, cereals, viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots, festal board, ambrosia, good cheer, good living, beef, bisquit, bun, cornstarch, cookie, cooky, cracker, doughnut, fatling, hardtack, hoecake, hominy, mutton, pilot bread, pork, roti, rusk, ship biscuit, veal, joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled, remove, entremet, releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince, pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat, pie, pasty, volauvent, pudding, omelet, pastry, sweets, kickshaws, condiment, appetizer, hors d'oeuvre, main course, entree, alligator pear, apple, apple slump, artichoke, ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack, atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak, beet root, blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey, chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut, table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote, ordinary, entree, meal, repast, feed, spread, mess, dish, plate, course, regale, regalement, refreshment, entertainment, refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket, breakfast, lunch, luncheon, dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert, potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette, hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal, blowout, light refreshment, bara, chotahazri, bara khana, mouthful, bolus, gobbet, morsel, sop, sippet, drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup, potion, dram, draught, drench, swill, nip, sip, sup, gulp, wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet, grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail, gin, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates, bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer, Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep, near beer, 2 beer, non- alcoholic beverage, eating house, diner, hippophage, glutton, eatable, edible, esculent, comestible, alimentary, cereal, cibarious, dietetic, culinary, nutritive, nutritious, gastric, succulent, potable, potulent, bibulous, omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous, graminivorous, phytivorous, ichthyivorous, omophagic, omophagous, pantophagous, phytophagous, xylophagous, across the walnuts and the wine, blessed hour of our dinners!, now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!, who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

Teaching

N teaching, instruction, edification, education, tuition, tutorage, tutelage, direction, guidance, opsimathy, qualification, preparation, training, schooling, discipline, excitation, drill, practice, book exercise, persuasion, proselytism, propagandism, propaganda, indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation, advise, explanation, lesson, lecture, sermon, apologue, parable, discourse, prolection, preachment, chalk talk, Chautauqua, exercise, task, curriculum, course, course of study, grammar, three R's, initiation, A, B, C, elementary education, primary education, secondary education, technical education, college education, collegiate education, military education, university education, liberal education, classical education, religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular education, propaedeutics, moral tuition, gymnastics, calisthenics, physical drill, physical education, sloyd, phonics, rote, rote memorization, brute memory, cooperative learning, Montessori method, ungraded classes, test, examination, exam, final exam, mid-term exam grade, score, marks, A, B, C, D, E, F, gentleman's C, pass, fail, incomplete, homework, take-home lesson, exercise for the student, theme, project, teaching, taught, educational, scholastic, academic, doctrinal, disciplinal, instructive, instructional, didactic, propaedeutic, propaedeutical, the schoolmaster abroad, a bovi majori disscit arare minor, adeo in teneris consuecere multum est, docendo discimus, quaenocent docent, qui docet discit, sermons in stones and good in everything.