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Definition of Coursing
1. Noun. Hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent.
Definition of Coursing
1. n. The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
Definition of Coursing
1. Verb. (present participle of course) ¹
2. Noun. The "sport" of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coursing
1. the pursuit of game by hounds [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coursing
Literary usage of Coursing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by American Ethnological Society (1859)
"Mr. DUNN—Mr. Spedding introduced the system of coursing the air at the ...
The universal system of ventilating coal mines, previous to the coursing of the ..."
2. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"sufficient if the foremost dog reached and pinched ; in coursing the fallow deer,
he was required to pinch and hold ; while in coursing the hare, ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"coursing ' consisted in the candidates challenging each other in the ... The most
minute description of the disturbances at coursing is given in ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"coursing. “A monk there was, a fair for the ... Both in Asia and Europe coursing
was supremely the sport of princes and nobles. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"The National coursing Club itself is composed of delegates from the different
... With the founding of the National Club, coursing was at length put upon a ..."
6. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1900)
"coursing.—Commencement of the Season.—Although the season of coursing nominally
commences in the month of September when partridge shooting and cub- hunting ..."
7. Coal Mining in Arkansas by Alvin Arthur Steel (1910)
"Ordinarily, however, if a mine is ventilated by coursing, the entire current ...
By coursing, no overcasts are required except the one over the main slope, ..."
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