in the course of
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.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.— Acts xxi. 7.[1913 Webster]
2.The ground or path traversed; track; way. [1913 Webster]
The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.— Pennant.[1913 Webster]
3.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.— Dennham.[1913 Webster]
Westward the course of empire takes its way.— Berkeley.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
The course of true love never did run smooth.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
6.Customary or established sequence of events; recurrence of events according to natural laws. [1913 Webster]
By course of nature and of law.— Davies.[1913 Webster]
Day and night, Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, Shall hold their course.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
7.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.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
By perseverance in the course prescribed.— Wodsworth.[1913 Webster]
You hold your course without remorse.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
9.The succession of one to another in office or duty; order; turn. [1913 Webster]
He appointed . . . the courses of the priests— 2 Chron. viii. 14.[1913 Webster]
10.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.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
11.(Arch.) A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
12.(Naut.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc. [1913 Webster]
13.pl. (Physiol.) 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. [1913 Webster]