courses

plural of course

Noun form of, plural

  1. plural of course

Noun euphemistic, obsolete

  1. Menses.
    • 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. - 1653,...
    • 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...

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of course