intercourse

noun

1. 1

   Communication, conversation.

   Yet do I vnderſtand your darkeſt language, / Your treads ath'toe, your ſecret iogges and vvringes: / Your entercourſe of glaunces: euery tittle / Of your cloſe Amorous rites I vnderſtand, / They ſpeake as loud to mee, as if you ſaid, / My deareſt Dariotto, I am thine.

   this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles

   And indeed, what more reliable authority could Berlioz have found than Cavaillé-Coll, with whom he had frequent intercourse, and who would have been better qualified than any one else to give him correct information?

   It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

2. 2

   Dealings between countries.

3. 3

   Dealings with people, including commerce and trade.

4. 4

   Sexual intercourse, especially that involving humans and especially penile-vaginal interconnection.

   When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.

verb

1. 1

   To have sexual intercourse.

Forms

plural

intercourses

past tense

intercoursed

past participle

intercoursed

present participle

intercoursing

third person singular

intercourses