[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

court \court\ k=ort, n. of. court, curt, cort, f. cour, ll.
   cortis, fr. l. cohors, cors, chors, gen. cohortis, cortis,
   chortis, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng;
   co- + a root akin to gr. chorto`s inclosure, feeding place,
   and to e. garden, yard, orchard. see yard, and cf.
   cohort, curtain.
   1. an inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in
      by the walls of a building, or by different building;
      also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded
      by houses; a blind alley.
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            the courts of the house of our god.   --ps. cxxxv.
                                                  2.
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            and round the cool green courts there ran a row
            of cloisters.                         --tennyson.
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            goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court.
                                                  --macaulay.
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   2. the residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other
      dignitary; a palace.
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            attends the emperor in his royal court. --shak.
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            this our court, infected with their manners,
            shows like a riotous inn.             --shak.
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   3. the collective body of persons composing the retinue of a
      sovereign or person high in authority; all the
      surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
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            my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door
            would speak with you.                 --shak.
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            love rules the court, the camp, the grove. --sir. w.
                                                  scott.
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   4. any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; as,
      to hold a court.
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            the princesses held their court within the fortress.
                                                  --macaulay.
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   5. attention directed to a person in power; conduct or
      address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners;
      civility; compliment; flattery.
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            no solace could her paramour intreat
            her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance.
                                                  --spenser.
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            i went to make my court to the duke and duchess of
            newcastle.                            --evelyn.
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   6. law
      a the hall, chamber, or place, where justice is
          administered.
      b the persons officially assembled under authority of
          law, at the appropriate time and place, for the
          administration of justice; an official assembly,
          legally met together for the transaction of judicial
          business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or
          trial of causes.
      c a tribunal established for the administration of
          justice.
      d the judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel
          or jury, or both.
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                most heartily i do beseech the court
                to give the judgment.             --shak.
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   7. the session of a judicial assembly.
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   8. any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
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   9. a place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one
      of the divisions of a tennis court.
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   christian court, the english ecclesiastical courts in the
      aggregate, or any one of them.

   court breeding, education acquired at court.

   court card. same as coat card.

   court circular, one or more paragraphs of news respecting
      the sovereign and the royal family, together with the
      proceedings or movements of the court generally, supplied
      to the newspapers by an officer specially charged with
      such duty. eng. --edwards.

   court of claims law, a court for settling claims against
      a state or government; specif., a court of the united
      states, created by act of congress, and holding its
      sessions at washington. it is given jurisdiction over
      claims on contracts against the government, and sometimes
      may advise the government as to its liabilities. webster
      1913 suppl.

   court day, a day on which a court sits to administer
      justice.

   court dress, the dress prescribed for appearance at the
      court of a sovereign.

   court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes
      and nobles for their amusement.

   court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the
      nobility and gentry in a town.

   court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records
      and judicial proceedings. --shak.

   court lands eng. law, lands kept in demesne, -- that is,
      for the use of the lord and his family.

   court marshal, one who acts as marshal for a court.

   court party, a party attached to the court.

   court rolls, the records of a court. seeroll.

   court in banc, or court in bank, the full court sitting
      at its regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon
      questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi
      prius.

   court of arches, audience, etc. see under arches,
      audience, etc.

   court of chancery. see chancery, n.

   court of common pleas. law see common pleas, under
      common.

   court of equity. see under equity, and chancery.

   court of inquiry mil., a court appointed to inquire into
      and report on some military matter, as the conduct of an
      officer.

   court of st. james, the usual designation of the british
      court; -- so called from the old palace of st. james,
      which is used for the royal receptions, levees, and
      drawing-rooms.

   the court of the lord, the temple at jerusalem; hence, a
      church, or christian house of worship.

   general court, the legislature of a state; -- so called
      from having had, in the colonial days, judicial power; as,
      the general court of massachusetts. u.s.

   to pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions.
      "alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to
      tissaphernes." --jowett.

   to put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.
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see also:
yard cohort curtain christian court court breeding court card 
coat card court circular court of claims court day court dress 
court fool court guide court hand court lands court marshal 
court party court rolls roll court in banc court in bank 
court of arches audience arches audience court of chancery 
chancery court of common pleas common pleas common court of equity 
equity court of inquiry court of st. james the court of the lord general court 
to pay one's court court to put out of court 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

court \court\, v. i.
   1. to play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.
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[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

court \court\, v. t. imp.  p. p. courted; p. pr.  vb. n.
   courting.
   1. to endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery;
      to try to ingratiate one's self with.
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            by one person, hovever, portland was still
            assiduously courted.                  --macaulay.
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   2. to endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in
      marriage; to woo.
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            if either of you both love katharina . . .
            leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
                                                  --shak.
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   3. to attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
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            they might almost seem to have courted the crown of
            martyrdom.                            --prescott.
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            guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
                                                  --de quincey.
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   4. to invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
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            a well-worn pathway courted us
            to one green wicket in a privet hedge. --tennyson.
      1913 webster
see also:
courted courting 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

court
     n 1: an assembly including one or more judges to conduct
          judicial business syn: tribunal, judicature
     2: the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power
        of a state syn: royal court
     3: a specially marked area within which a game is played;
        "players had to reserve a court in advance"
     4: a room in which a law court sits; "television cameras were
        admitted in the courtroom" syn: courtroom
     5: a yard wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings;
        "the house was built around an inner court" syn: courtyard
     6: the residence of a sovereign or nobleman; "the king will
        visit the duke's court"
     7: the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince syn: royal
        court
     8: a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to
        parking area syn: motor hotel, motor inn, motor
        lodge, tourist court
     9: australian woman tennis player who won many major
        championships born in 1947 syn: margaret court
     10: respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor" syn: homage
     v 1: make amorous advances towards; "john is courting mary" syn:
           woo, romance, solicit
     2: seek someone's favor; "china is wooing russia" syn: woo
     3: engage in social activities leading to marriage; "we were
        courting for over ten years"
see also:
tribunal judicature royal court courtroom courtyard royal court 
motor hotel motor inn motor lodge tourist court margaret court 
homage woo romance solicit 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

339 moby thesaurus words for "court":
   autobahn, british cabinet, rasputin, sanhedrin, svengali,
   us cabinet, us highway, vip, access, act up to, address, addresses,
   advisory body, agree to anything, alley, alleyway, allure,
   amorous pursuit, angle for, approach, archery ground, arena,
   arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, assembly,
   association, athletic field, attendance, attendant, attract,
   autoroute, autostrada, avenue, bad influence, badminton court, bar,
   baseball field, basketball court, beak, beau, belt highway, bench,
   bicameral legislature, bid for, big wheel, billiard parlor,
   blind alley, board, board of aldermen, body of advisers,
   body of retainers, borough council, boulevard, bowling alley,
   bowling green, brain trust, break the ice, brown-nose, bypass,
   byway, cabinet, camarilla, camino real, canvass, captivate,
   carriageway, castle, causeway, causey, chamber,
   chamber of deputies, charm, chase, chaussee, cincture,
   circumferential, city board, city council, close, cohort,
   commission, common council, conference, confine, congress,
   consultative assembly, container, coop, corduroy road, cortege,
   council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state,
   council of war, county council, county road, course,
   court of arbitration, court of justice, court of law, courthouse,
   courting, courtroom, courtyard, crescent, cricket ground,
   croquet ground, croquet lawn, cul-de-sac, cultivate, curry favor,
   curtilage, dance attendance on, dead-end street,
   deliberative assembly, delimited field, diamond, diet, dike,
   directory, dirt road, divan, dock, drive, driveway, eminence grise,
   enclave, enclosure, entourage, esquire, expressway, fairway,
   fall over, fawn upon, federal assembly, field, fish for,
   five-percenter, fold, follow, follower, following, football field,
   freeway, friend at court, gallantry, general assembly, glaciarium,
   golf course, golf links, good influence, gravel road,
   gray eminence, gridiron, ground, gym, gymnasium, heavyweight,
   hidden hand, highroad, highway, highways and byways,
   house of assembly, ice rink, infield, influence, influence peddler,
   influencer, ingroup, interstate highway, judgment, judicatory,
   judicature, judicial process, judiciary, junta, jury box, justice,
   key, kingmaker, kitchen cabinet, lane, law court, lay siege to,
   legal tribunal, legislative assembly, legislative body,
   legislative chamber, legislature, links, list, lobby, lobbyist,
   local road, look for, lords of creation, lower chamber,
   lower house, magistrate, main drag, main road, make advances,
   make court to, make suit to, make up to, man of influence,
   manipulator, mansion, mews, motorway, national assembly,
   open sesame, outfield, oval, palace, palais, palatial residence,
   palazzo, pale, paling, parasite, parish council, park, parkway,
   parliament, pave, paved road, pay addresses to, pay attention to,
   pay court to, pen, pike, place, plank road, play up to, playground,
   playing field, playroom, polish the apple, polo ground, pool hall,
   poolroom, pop the question, powers that be, pressure group,
   primary highway, private road, privy council,
   provincial legislature, provincial parliament, pursue,
   putting green, quad, quadrangle, racecourse, racket court,
   representative town meeting, retinue, right-of-way, ring road,
   rink, road, roadbed, roadway, rout, route nationale, row,
   royal road, run after, satellite, secondary road, seek, serenade,
   shine up to, sinister influence, skating rink, soccer field,
   solicit, soviet, spark, special interests, special-interest group,
   speedway, square, squash court, squire, staff, state assembly,
   state highway, state legislature, street, stretch, suck up to, sue,
   sue for, suing, suit, suite, superhighway, swain, sweetheart,
   syndicate, synod, tennis court, terrace, the establishment,
   the courts, theater, thoroughfare, through street, thruway, toft,
   toll road, tower, town hall, town house, town meeting,
   township road, track, train, tribunal, turf, turnpike,
   unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house,
   very important person, villa, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller,
   witness box, witness stand, woo, wooing, wynd, yard

[6] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

court
   the enclosure of the tabernacle ex. 27:9-19; 40:8, of the
   temple 1 kings 6:36, of a prison neh. 3:25, of a private
   house 2 sam. 17:18, and of a king's palace 2 kings 20:4.
   

[7] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

court, practice. a court is an incorporeal political being, which requires 
for its existence, the presence of the judges, or a competent number of 
them, and a clerk or prothonotary, at the time during which, and at the 
place where it is by law authorized to be held; and the performance of some 
public act, indicative of a design to perform the functions of a court. 
     2. in another sense, the judges, clerk, or prothonotary, counsellors 
and ministerial officers, are said to constitute the court. 
     3. according to lord, coke, a court is a place where justice is 
judicially administered. co. litt. 58, a. 
     4. the judges, when duly convened, are also called the court. vide 6 
vin. ab. 484; wheat. dig. 127; merl. rep. h.t.; 3 com. dig. 300; 8 id. 
386; dane's ab. index, h.t.; bouv. inst. index, h.t. 
     5. it sometimes happens that the judges composing a court are equally 
divided on questions discussed before them. it has been decided, that when 
such is the case on an appeal or writ of error, the judgment or decree is 
affirmed. 10 wheat. 66; 11 id. 59. if it occurs on a motion in arrest of 
judgment, a judgment is to be entered on the verdict. 2 dall. rep. 388. if 
on a motion for a new trial, the motion is rejected. 6 wheat. 542. if on a 
motion to enter judgment on a verdict, the judgment is entered. 6 binn. 100. 
in england, if the house of lords be equally divided on a writ of error, the 
judgment of the court below is affirmed. 1 arch. pr. 235. so in cam. scacc. 
1 arch. pr. 240. but in error coram nobis, no judgment can be given if the 
judges are equally divided, except by consent. 1 arch. pr. 246. when the 
judges are equally divided on the admission of testimony, it cannot be 
received. but see 3 yeates, 171. also, 2 bin. 173; 3 bin. 113 4 bin. 157; 1 
johns. rep. 118 4 wash. c. c. rep. 332, 3. see division of opinion. 
     6. courts are of various kinds. when considered as to their powers, 
they are of record and not of record; bac. ab. courts, d; when compared. to 
each other, they are supreme, superior, and inferior, id.; when examined as 
to their original jurisdiction, they are civil or criminal; when viewed as 
to their territorial jurisdiction, they are central or local; when divided 
as to their object, they are courts of law, courts of equity, courts 
martial, admiralty courts, and ecclesiastical courts. they are also courts 
of original jurisdiction, courts of error, and courts of appeal. vide open 
court. 
     7. courts of record cannot be deprived of their jurisdiction except by 
express negative words. 9 serg.  r. 298; 3 yeates, 479 2 burr. 1042 1 wm. 
bl. rep. 285. and such a court is the court of common pleas in pennsylvania. 
6 serg.  r. 246. 
     8. courts of equity are not, in general, courts of record. their 
decrees touch the person, not lands. or goods. 3 caines, 36. yet, as to 
personalty, their decrees are equal to a judgment; 2. madd. chan. 355; 2 
salk., 507; 1 ver. 214; 3 caines, 35; and have preference according to 
priority. 3 p. wms. 401 n.; cas. temp. talb. 217; 4 bro. p. c. 287; 4 johns. 
chan. cas. 638. they are also conclusive between the parties. 6 wheat. 109. 
assumpsit will lie on a decree of a foreign court of chancery for a sum 
certain; 1 campb. rep. 253, per lord kenyon; but not for a sum not 
ascertained. 3 caines, 37, n. in pennsylvania, an action at law will lie 
on a decree of a court of chancery, but the pleas nil debet and nul tiel 
record cannot be pleaded in such an action. 9 serg.  r. 258. 

[8] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

court, prize. one of the branches of the english admiralty, is called a 
prize court. vide prize court. 

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

court, instance. one of the branches of the english admiralty is called an 
instance court. vide instance court. 

[10] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

court, supreme. supreme court is the name of a court having jurisdiction 
over all other courts vide courts of the united states. 

[11] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)

court :fool:, n.  the plaintiff.

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