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BargecourseBargecourse Barge"course`, n. [See Bargeboard.] (Arch.)
A part of the tiling which projects beyond the principal
rafters, in buildings where there is a gable. --Gwilt. Blocking course
Blocking course Block"ing course` (Arch.)
The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
ConcourseConcourse Con"course, n. [F. concours, L. concursus, fr.
concurrere to run together. See Concur.]
1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
The good frame of the universe was not the product
of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of
matter. --Sir M. Hale.
2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or
spontaneous moving and meeting in one place.
Amidst the concourse were to be seen the noble
ladies of Milan, in gay, fantastic cars, shining in
silk brocade. --Prescott.
3. The place or point of meeting or junction of two bodies.
[Obs.]
The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of
the glasses. --Sir I.
Newton.
4. An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an
open space in a park where several roads meet.
5. Concurrence; co["o]peration. [Obs.]
The divine providence is wont to afford its
concourse to such proceeding. --Barrow. CourseCourse Course, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr.
& vb. n. Coursing.]
1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to
pursue.
We coursed him at the heels. --Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course
greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. Course
Course Course, v. i.
1. To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of
coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of
Lancashire.
2. To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through
the veins. --Shak.
CoursedCourse Course, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr.
& vb. n. Coursing.]
1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to
pursue.
We coursed him at the heels. --Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course
greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. Coursed
Coursed Coursed (k?rst), a.
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare.
2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
CourserCourser Cours"er (k?rs"?r), n. [F. coursier.]
1. One who courses or hunts.
leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser
leads his greyhound. --Hanmer.
2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a
charger. [Poetic.] --Pope.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius
cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes,
in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich
family. CourseyCoursey Cour"sey (k?r"s?), n. [Cf. OF. corsie, coursie,
passage way to the stern. See Course, n. ] (Naut.)
A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc. CoursingCourse Course, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr.
& vb. n. Coursing.]
1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to
pursue.
We coursed him at the heels. --Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course
greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope. Coursing
Coursing Cours"ing (k?rs"?ng), n.
The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight
instead of by scent.
In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds.
--Bacon
Coursing jointJoint Joint (joint), n. [F. joint, fr. joindre, p. p. joint.
See Join.]
1. The place or part where two things or parts are joined or
united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces
admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a
joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
2. A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion;
an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the
knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket
joint. See Articulation.
A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, Must
glove this hand. --Shak.
To tear thee joint by joint. --Milton.
3. The part or space included between two joints, knots,
nodes, or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass
stem; a joint of the leg.
4. Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions
by the butcher for roasting.
5. (Geol.) A plane of fracture, or divisional plane, of a
rock transverse to the stratification.
6. (Arch.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two
bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement,
mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
7. The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a
structure are secured together.
Coursing joint (Masonry), the mortar joint between two
courses of bricks or stones.
Fish joint, Miter joint, Universal joint, etc. See
under Fish, Miter, etc.
Joint bolt, a bolt for fastening two pieces, as of wood,
one endwise to the other, having a nut embedded in one of
the pieces.
Joint chair (Railroad), the chair that supports the ends of
abutting rails.
Joint coupling, a universal joint for coupling shafting.
See under Universal.
Joint hinge, a hinge having long leaves; a strap hinge.
Joint splice, a re["e]nforce at a joint, to sustain the
parts in their true relation.
Joint stool.
(a) A stool consisting of jointed parts; a folding stool.
--Shak.
(b) A block for supporting the end of a piece at a joint;
a joint chair.
Out of joint, out of place; dislocated, as when the head of
a bone slips from its socket; hence, not working well
together; disordered. ``The time is out of joint.'
--Shak. Direct discourseDirect Di*rect", a. [L. directus, p. p. of dirigere to direct:
cf. F. direct. See Dress, and cf. Dirge.]
1. Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by
the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct
line; direct means.
What is direct to, what slides by, the question.
--Locke.
2. Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from
truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
Be even and direct with me. --Shak.
3. Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
He nowhere, that I know, says it in direct words.
--Locke.
A direct and avowed interference with elections.
--Hallam.
4. In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant
in the direct line.
5. (Astron.) In the direction of the general planetary
motion, or from west to east; in the order of the signs;
not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
Direct action. (Mach.) See Direct-acting.
Direct discourse (Gram.), the language of any one quoted
without change in its form; as, he said ``I can not
come;' -- correlative to indirect discourse, in which
there is change of form; as, he said that he could not
come. They are often called respectively by their Latin
names, oratio directa, and oratio obliqua.
Direct evidence (Law), evidence which is positive or not
inferential; -- opposed to circumstantial, or indirect,
evidence. -- This distinction, however, is merely formal,
since there is no direct evidence that is not
circumstantial, or dependent on circumstances for its
credibility. --Wharton.
Direct examination (Law), the first examination of a
witness in the orderly course, upon the merits. --Abbott.
Direct fire (Mil.), fire, the direction of which is
perpendicular to the line of troops or to the parapet
aimed at.
Direct process (Metal.), one which yields metal in working
condition by a single process from the ore. --Knight.
Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and
polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or
customs, and from excise. DiscourseDiscourse Dis*course", n. [L. discursus a running to and fro,
discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to
discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See
Course.]
1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it
were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a
conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning;
range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]
Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of
natural reason. --South.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not That
capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.
--Shak.
2. Conversation; talk.
In their discourses after supper. --Shak.
Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the
mouth with copious discourse. --Locke.
3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse. --Shak.
4. Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a
given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation;
sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on
duty.
5. Dealing; transaction. [Obs.]
Good Captain Bessus, tell us the discourse Betwixt
Tigranes and our king, and how We got the victory.
--Beau. & Fl. Discourse
Discourse Dis*course", v. t.
1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language. [Obs.]
The life of William Tyndale . . . is sufficiently
and at large discoursed in the book. --Foxe.
2. To utter or give forth; to speak.
It will discourse most eloquent music. --Shak.
3. To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.]
I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to
discourse the minister about it. --Evelyn.
Discourser
Discourser Dis*cours"er, n.
1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.
In his conversation he was the most clear
discourser. --Milward.
2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.
Philologers and critical discoursers. --Sir T.
Browne.
Discoursive
Discoursive Dis*cours"ive, n.
The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason.
[R.] --Feltham.
DiscoursiveDiscoursive Dis*cours"ive, a. [See Discursive.]
1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from
premises to consequences; discursive. --Milton.
2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.
The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or
discoursive scenes. --Dryden.
3. Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a
discoursive man. [R.] Foundation courseFoundation Foun*da"tion, n. [F. fondation, L. fundatio. See
Found to establish.]
1. The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to
erect.
2. That upon which anything is founded; that on which
anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest
and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork;
basis.
Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . .
. a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. --Is.
xxviii. 16.
The foundation of a free common wealth. --Motley.
3. (Arch.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a
wall, including the base course (see Base course
(a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame
house, the whole substructure of masonry.
4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable
institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment.
He was entered on the foundation of Westminster.
--Macaulay.
5. That which is founded, or established by endowment; an
endowed institution or charity.
Against the canon laws of our foundation. --Milton.
Foundation course. See Base course, under Base, n.
Foundation muslin, an open-worked gummed fabric used for
stiffening dresses, bonnets, etc.
Foundation school, in England, an endowed school.
To be on a foundation, to be entitled to a support from the
proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a
college. Heading courseHeading Head"ing, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads;
formation of a head.
2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a
paper.
3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
4. (Mining.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the
end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
5. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line
of stitch.
6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented
outward. --Knight.
Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of
headers. See Header, n. 3
(a) .
Heading joint.
(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at
right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same
course. Indirect discourseIndirect In`di*rect", a. [Pref. in- not + direct: cf. F.
indirect.]
1. Not direct; not straight or rectilinear; deviating from a
direct line or course; circuitous; as, an indirect road.
2. Not tending to an aim, purpose, or result by the plainest
course, or by obvious means, but obliquely or
consequentially; by remote means; as, an indirect
accusation, attack, answer, or proposal.
By what bypaths and indirect, crooked ways I met
this crown. --Shak.
3. Not straightforward or upright; unfair; dishonest; tending
to mislead or deceive.
Indirect dealing will be discovered one time or
other. --Tillotson.
4. Not resulting directly from an act or cause, but more or
less remotely connected with or growing out of it; as,
indirect results, damages, or claims.
5. (Logic & Math.) Not reaching the end aimed at by the most
plain and direct method; as, an indirect proof,
demonstration, etc.
Indirect claims, claims for remote or consequential damage.
Such claims were presented to and thrown out by the
commissioners who arbitrated the damage inflicted on the
United States by the Confederate States cruisers built and
supplied by Great Britain.
Indirect demonstration, a mode of demonstration in which
proof is given by showing that any other supposition
involves an absurdity (reductio ad absurdum), or an
impossibility; thus, one quantity may be proved equal to
another by showing that it can be neither greater nor
less.
Indirect discourse. (Gram.) See Direct discourse, under
Direct.
Indirect evidence, evidence or testimony which is
circumstantial or inferential, but without witness; --
opposed to direct evidence.
Indirect tax, a tax, such as customs, excises, IntercourseIntercourse In"ter*course, n. [Formerly entercourse, OF.
entrecours commerce, exchange, F. entrecours a reciprocal
right on neighboring lands, L. intercursus a running between,
fr. intercurrere to run between. See Inter-, and Course.]
A commingling; intimate connection or dealings between
persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in
correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially,
interchange of thought and feeling; association; communion.
This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. --Milton.
Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition.
Syn: Communication; connection; commerce; communion;
fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. Margin of a courseMargin Mar"gin, n. [OE. margine, margent, L. margo, ginis. Cf.
March a border, Marge.]
1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or
lake.
2. Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left
uncovered in writing or printing.
3. (Com.) The difference between the cost and the selling
price of an article.
4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be
foreseen or known with certainty.
5. (Brokerage) Collateral security deposited with a broker to
secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on
behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and
selling of stocks, wheat, etc. --N. Biddle.
Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of
hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints.
Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of
slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course
immediately above it. See 2d Gauge.
Syn: Border; brink; verge; brim; rim. Race courseRace Race, n. [OE. ras, res, rees, AS. r[=ae]s a rush,
running; akin to Icel. r[=a]s course, race. [root]118.]
1. A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
2. Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
The flight of many birds is swifter than the race of
any beasts. --Bacon.
3. Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a
contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding,
driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually,
a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he
attended the races.
The race is not to the swift. --Eccl. ix.
11.
I wield the gauntlet, and I run the race. --Pope.
4. Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged;
hence, career; course of life.
My race of glory run, and race of shame. --Milton.
5. A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or
passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy
sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as,
the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
6. The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the
channel in which it flows; a mill race.
Note: The part of the channel above the wheel is sometimes
called the headrace, the part below, the tailrace.
7. (Mach.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven
back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
Race cloth, a cloth worn by horses in racing, having
pockets to hold the weights prescribed.
Race course.
(a) The path, generally circular or elliptical, over which
a race is run.
(b) Same as Race way, below.
Race cup, a cup given as a prize to the victor in a race.
Race glass, a kind of field glass.
Race horse.
(a) A horse that runs in competition; specifically, a
horse bred or kept for running races.
(b) A breed of horses remarkable for swiftness in running.
(c) (Zo["o]l.) The steamer duck.
(d) (Zo["o]l.) A mantis.
Race knife, a cutting tool with a blade that is hooked at
the point, for marking outlines, on boards or metals, as
by a pattern, -- used in shipbuilding.
Race saddle, a light saddle used in racing.
Race track. Same as Race course
(a), above.
Race way, the canal for the current that drives a water
wheel. Raking courseRake Rake, v. i.
To incline from a perpendicular direction; as, a mast rakes
aft.
Raking course (Bricklaying), a course of bricks laid
diagonally between the face courses in a thick wall, to
strengthen. Random coursesRandom Ran"dom, a.
Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or
without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without
previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random
guess.
Some random truths he can impart. --Wordsworth.
So sharp a spur to the lazy, and so strong a bridle to
the random. --H. Spencer.
Random courses (Masonry), courses of unequal thickness.
Random shot, a shot not directed or aimed toward any
particular object, or a shot with the muzzle of the gun
much elevated.
Random work (Masonry), stonework consisting of stones of
unequal sizes fitted together, but not in courses nor
always with flat beds. RecourseRecourse Re*course" (r?*k?rs"), n. [F. recours, L. recursus a
running back, return, fr. recurrere, recursum, to run back.
See Recur.]
1. A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a
previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat;
recurence. [Obs.] ``Swift recourse of flushing blood.'
--Spenser.
Unto my first I will have my recourse. --Chaucer.
Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the
healthy, or the recourse thereof in the
valetudinary. --Sir T.
Browne.
2. Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like;
access or application for aid; resort.
Thus died this great peer, in a time of great
recourse unto him and dependence upon him. --Sir H.
Wotton.
Our last recourse is therefore to our art. --Dryden.
3. Access; admittance. [Obs.]
Give me recourse to him. --Shak.
Without recourse (Commerce), words sometimes added to the
indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the
indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent
holders. It is a restricted indorsement. Recourse
Recourse Re*course", v. i.
1. To return; to recur. [Obs.]
The flame departing and recoursing. --Foxe.
2. To have recourse; to resort. [Obs.] --Bp. Hacket.
Recourseful
Recourseful Re*course"ful (-f?l), a.
Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. [Obs.]
--Drayton.
ScourseScourse Scourse (sk[=o]rs), v. t.
See Scorse. [Obs.]
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