Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse: used chiefly in poetry.
- noun One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing.
- noun A discourser; a disputant.
- noun In ornithology: A bird of the genus Cursorius: as, the cream-colored courser, Cursorius isabellinus.
- noun plural The birds of the old group Cursores; the struthious birds, as the ostrich, etc.
- noun A broker; an agent; a dealer; especially, a dealer in horses.
- noun A groom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who courses or hunts.
- noun Poetic. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
- noun (Zoöl.) A grallatorial bird of Europe
(Cursorius cursor) , remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dog used forcoursing . - noun A person who practises coursing.
- noun A
hunter . - noun A
stone used inbuilding acourse . - noun A
racehorse or acharger . - noun Any of several
species ofbird in the genusCursorius of the familyGlareolidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
- noun a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
- noun a dog trained for coursing
- noun formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Etymologies
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Examples
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Of courser, that is exactly what every government should be doing.
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Jaime Lannister trotted onto the field on a chestnut courser with a tawny mane, clad in golden armor that flashed and glittered in the sun.
Trial of Seven grrm 2010
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Now she was tolerating him too much, crabby on account of his art, using courser language, waxing indifferent.
Bear Circuit Jesse Crockett 2011
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Identifying megadiverse countries instead of regions is spatially courser and concentrates biodiversity over a larger percentage of the globe: collectively the 17 nations cover about 40 percent of the world's non-glacial land area.
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Perhaps this simplicity eluded me when attempting to prepare a complex three-courser that would speak to Norman Dubie's poetic flights of fancy.
Poetry And Food 2010
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But if you're looking to start the party fashionably early (We always are), Ammo gets the ball rolling on Sunday, July 11th with a notable three-courser.
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Since I didn't want to bury myself in the kitchen all night, I felt a three-courser would suffice.
Poetry And Food 2010
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Jaime Lannister trotted onto the field on a chestnut courser with a tawny mane, clad in golden armor that flashed and glittered in the sun.
Trial of Seven grrm 2010
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Perhaps this simplicity eluded me when attempting to prepare a complex three-courser that would speak to Norman Dubie's poetic flights of fancy.
Poetry And Food 2010
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Since I didn't want to bury myself in the kitchen all night, I felt a three-courser would suffice.
Poetry And Food 2010
chained_bear commented on the word courser
In the Middle Ages, a swift and strong horse ridden by knights and men-at-arms.
Now, it's mostly used to describe Santa's reindeer, which he whistled and shouted and called by name.
November 8, 2007