courses
Pronunciation
  • (RP) enPR: kôsʹĭz, IPA: /ˈkɔːsɪz/
  • (GA) enPR: kôrsʹĭz, IPA: /ˈkɔɹsɪz/
  • (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: kōrsʹĭz, IPA: /ˈko(ː)ɹsɪz/
  • (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈkoəsɪz/
Noun
  1. plural form of course
  2. (obsolete, euphemistic) menses#English|Menses.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:
      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.
Verb
  1. third-person singular form of course



This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Offline English dictionary