ppl. a. [f. COURSE sb. & v.]

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  1.  [f. the vb.] Chased, spec. as a hare by greyhounds.

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1740.  Somerville, Hobbinol, III. 427. So the cours’d Hare to the close Covert flies.

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1888.  Harper’s Mag., July, 199. I swerved like a coursed hare.

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  2.  [f. the sb.] Of masonry: Laid or set in courses.

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1851.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. v. § 6. There are solid as well as coursed masses of precipice.

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1861.  Smiles, Engineers, II. 173. The whole of the masonry was plain rustic coursed work.

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