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Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

r; disposition. [Obs.] So priketh hem nature in here corages. Chaucer. My lord, cheer up your spirits; our foes are nigh, and this soft courage makes your followers faint. Shak.

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold. With this victory, the women became most courageous and proud, and the men waxed . . . fearful and desperate. Stow.

In a courageous manner.

The quality of being courageous; courage.

Represented as running; -- said of a beast borne in a coat of arms.

A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

Curved; rounded. [Obs.] Her neck is short, her shoulders courb. Gower.

See Animé, n.

A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief. [Scot.] [Written also curch.] Jamieson.

convey letters or dispatches, usually on public busuness. The wary Bassa . . . by speedy couriers, advertised Solyman of the enemy's purpose. Knolles.

A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

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

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…