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To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds, . . . And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach. Shak.

To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue. We coursed him at the heels. Shak.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

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

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

cked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse. [Slang.]

rom one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream. A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. I. Watts.

whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

Any curiosity or article of virtu. The busy world, which does not hunt poets as collectors hunt for curios. F. Harrison.

The art of hunting with dogs.

id antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer; a staghound.

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

nis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.

The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. Pope. Diana monkey (Zoöl.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).

To hunt or track like a hound; to follow insidiously or indefatigably; to chase with a dog or dogs; to worry, as if by dogs; to hound with importunity. I have been pursued, dogged, and waylaid. Pope. Your sins will dog you, pursue you. Burroughs. Eager ill-bred petitioners, who do not so properly supplicate as hunt the…

nd go back over the same ground, or in an opposite direction. Doubling and turning like a hunted hare. Dryden. Doubling and doubling with laborious walk. Wordsworth.

A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice. Dryden.