Obs. or dial. [f. next.]
† 1. intr. To dance a courante. Obs.
1625. Lisle, Du Bartas, Noe, 73. The neighbour hillocks leapt, and woods rejoyced round, Carranting, as it were, at her sweet voice’s sound.
2. To run or race about. dial.
1800. F. Leighton, Lett., 17 Feb. to J. Boucher (MS.). To the list of Shropshire words you may add ‘Couranting,’ i.e. begging corn about the country on St. Thomas’s day.
1855. Kingsley, Westw. Ho! III. x. 303 (D.). ‘If everybody ’s caranting about to once each after his own men, nobody ’ll find nothing in wuch a scrimmage as that.’
1879. Shropsh. Word-bk., Couranting, going about from place to place gossiping and carrying news.
