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<hw>Cours"er</hw> <tt>(k?rs"?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>coursier</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who courses or hunts.</def>

<blockquote> leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a <b>courser</b> leads his greyhound.

<i>Hanmer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.</def> <mark>[Poetic.]</mark>

<i>Pope.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A grallatorial bird of Europe <spn>(Cursorius cursor)</spn>, remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.</def>

<h1>Coursey</h1> <Xpage=334>

<hw>Cour"sey</hw> <tt>(k?r"s?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>corsie</ets>, <ets>coursie</ets>, passage way to the stern. See <er>Course</er>, <tt>n.</tt> ]</ety> <fld>(Naut.)</fld><def>A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.</def>

<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>

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<hw>Cours"ing</hw> <tt>(k?rs"?ng)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.</def>

<blockquote>In <b>coursing</b> of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. <i>Bacon</i></blockquote>

<h1>Court</h1> <Xpage=335>

<hw>Court</hw> <tt>(k?rt)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>court</ets>, <ets>curt</ets>, <ets>cort</ets>, F. <ets>co<?/r</ets>, LL. <ets>cortis</ets>, fr. L. <ets>cohors</ets>, <ets>cors</ets>, <ets>chors</ets>, gen. <ets>cohortis</ets>, <ets>cortis</ets>, <ets>chortis</ets>, an inclosure, court, thing inclosed, crowd, throng; <ets>co-</ets> + a root akin to Gr. <?/<?/<?/<?/ inclosure, feeding place, and to E. <ets>garden</ets>, <ets>yard</ets>, <ets>orchard</ets>. See <er>Yard</er>, and cf. <er>Cohort</er>, <er>Curtain</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>courts</b> the house of our God. <i>Ps. cxxxv. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And round the cool green <b>courts</b> there ran a row Cf cloisters. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable <b>court</b>. <i>Macualay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.</def>

<blockquote>Attends the emperor in his royal <b>court</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This our <b>court</b>, infected with their manners, Shows like a riotous inn. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in aithority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.</def>

<blockquote>My lord, there is a nobleman of the <b>court</b> at door would speak with you. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Love rules the <b>court</b>, the camp, the grove. <i>Sir. W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign; <as>as, to hold a <ex>court</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The princesses held their <b>court</b> within the fortres. <i>Macualay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.</def>

<blockquote>No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne <b>court</b>, nor dalliance. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I went to make my <b>court</b> to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>