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A race course: the ground run over.

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  1. n. A race course: the ground run over.
  2. n. A running; full speed; a rapid course.
  3. n. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
  4. n. The flight of a hawk.
  5. v. i. To move or run rapidly.
  6. n. the particular occupation for which you are trained
  7. n. the general progression of your working or professional life
  8. v. move headlong at high speed
  9. 1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins. 3. General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay. 4. (Falconary) The fight of a hawk. To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.
  10. The fight of a hawk.
  11. v:1/n:99 n. the particular occupation for which you are trained n. the general progression of your working or professional life v. move headlong at high speed