Courses

Definitions

1. Course.
2. Menses.
   euphemistic, obsolete, plural, plural-only
3. Leave.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 to help⟳ the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.””

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