[ noun ] hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent <noun.act>
Coursing \Cours"ing\ (k?rs"?ng), n. The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. --Bacon
Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coursed} (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coursing}.] 1. To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
We coursed him at the heels. --Shak.
2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
3. To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope.
At the Taj Mahal's opening in April, the torrent of coins coursing through the casino literally broke the bank, triggering a modified meltdown of the slot-accounting system that left rows of machines shut down for weeks.
The language is one of emotional endorsement, of coursing sympathy. It follows that the piece needs a Werther who will compel belief and never let the precious fabric tear.
Her 5-year-old son, Rahim, was one of seven children who drowned when the Ganges River, swollen with floodwaters coursing down from the Himalayan foothills in neighboring India, inundated this village of 500 people about 70 miles west of Dhaka.
Contrast this sketch to his stupendous Alpine landscape with a village in the foreground and a river coursing under a crag topped by a castle.
But Regional Development Minister Elwood Veitch, who has one of the closest offices to the piper, is on Tarasoff's side: "Listen, I've got Scottish blood coursing through my veins.
The horse coursing scene just misses, and this is the trouble with playing Faustus in full.