Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dog trained for coursing.
- n. A huntsman.
- n. A swift horse; a charger.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A swift horse; a runner; a war-horse: used chiefly in poetry.
- n. One who hunts; one who pursues the sport of coursing.
- n. A discourser; a disputant.
- n. In ornithology: A bird of the genus Cursorius: as, the cream-colored courser, Cursorius isabellinus.
- n. plural The birds of the old group Cursores; the struthious birds, as the ostrich, etc.
- n. A broker; an agent; a dealer; especially, a dealer in horses.
- n. A groom.
Wiktionary
- n. A dog used for coursing.
- n. A person who practises coursing.
- n. A hunter.
- n. A stone used in building a course.
- n. A racehorse or a charger.
- n. Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who courses or hunts.
- n. Poetic. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
- n. (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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles
- n. a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey
- n. a dog trained for coursing
- n. formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cursier, corser (French: coursier), from curs "course". (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Of courser, that is exactly what every government should be doing.”
“Now she was tolerating him too much, crabby on account of his art, using courser language, waxing indifferent.”
“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.”
“Since I didn't want to bury myself in the kitchen all night, I felt a three-courser would suffice.”
“Perhaps this simplicity eluded me when attempting to prepare a complex three-courser that would speak to Norman Dubie's poetic flights of fancy.”
“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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“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.”
“Streams in the Wichita Mountains (27k) have courser substrates, higher gradients, and less turbidity than elsewhere in the Central Great Plains (27).”
“Jörgen Stubberud's team consisted, however, of four intractable puppies, besides Puss and another courser of similar breed; the result was that our pace was a modest one and our course anything but straight, so that we arrived at Framheim two hours after the time appointed for dinner.”
“I never said the shots where out of the ordinary I am talking about the courser amieing if you everrrrrrr noticed in l4d it shows about where the shots are going to go and usally the shotgun is fixed and the one shown in that video has it fixed at a tiney point if you care to look at the details of the video.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘courser’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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horses
everything horses
horse, bay, bloodhorse, bloodstock, bolter, broncho, bronco, brumby, bucker, buckjumper, cob, cocktail and 200 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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There's a word for that?
temerity, tacit, froward, faineant, caterwaul, menagerie, ennui, sine qua non, lissom, multifarious, laconic, katzenjammer and 240 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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Equitation
Including but not limited to: horse breeds, horse terms, and items of equine interest.
appaloosa, percheron, ardennes, belgian, clydesdale, morgan, arabian, quarter horse, morab, shire, sheffield, boulonnais and 67 more...
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Calvino
Words found in "Six Memos for the Next Millennium"
courser, turn of phrase, encomium, apologia, digression, felicity, mot juste, syntony, focalization, laconic, metrical, impalpable and 17 more...
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Medieval Horse-Related Words Listed b...
Just what it sounds like.
destrier, percheron, courser, rouncey, draught, joust, tournament, knight, squire, charger, lance, men-at-arms and 83 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear 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. Nov 7, 2007