Courser

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A broker; an agent; a dealer; especially, a dealer in horses.
  • noun. A groom.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who courses or hunts.
  • noun. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A dog used for coursing.
  • noun. A person who practises coursing.
  • noun. A hunter.
  • noun. A stone used in building a course.
  • noun. A racehorse or a charger.
  • noun. Any of several species of bird in the genus Cursorius of the family Glareolidae.
  • 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
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