COURSER

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. Hanmer.

2.
n.

A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] Pope.

3.
n.

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.


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