Definitions for coursing

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coursing cours·ing

Spelling: [kawr-sing, kohr-]

IPA: /ˈkɔr sɪŋ, ˈkoʊr-/

Coursing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 279 anagrams from letters in coursing (cginorsu).

Definitions for coursing

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that courses.
2. the sport of pursuing game with dogs that follow by sight rather than by scent.
3. a direction or route taken or to be taken.
4. the path, route, or channel along which anything moves:
5. advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement.
6. the continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages:
7. the track, ground, water, etc., on which a race is run, sailed, etc.:
8. a particular manner of proceeding:
9. a customary manner of procedure; regular or natural order of events:
10. a mode of conduct; behavior.
11. a systematized or prescribed series:
12. a program of instruction, as in a college or university:
13. a prescribed number of instruction periods or classes in a particular field of study.
14. a part of a meal served at one time:
15. Navigation. the line along the earth's surface upon or over which a vessel, an aircraft, etc., proceeds: described by its bearing with relation to true or magnetic north. a point of the compass.
16. Nautical. the lowermost sail on a fully square-rigged mast: designated by a special name, as foresail or mainsail, or by the designation of the mast itself, as fore course or main course.
17. Building Trades. a continuous and usually horizontal range of bricks, shingles, etc., as in a wall or roof.
18. one of the pairs of strings on an instrument of the lute family, tuned in unison or in octaves to increase the volume.
19. the row of stitches going across from side to side in knitting and other needlework (opposed to wale).
20. Often, courses. the menses.
21. a charge by knights in a tournament.
22. a pursuit of game with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
23. golf course.
24. a race.

Idioms

1. in due course, in the proper or natural order of events; eventually:
2. of course, certainly; definitely: in the usual or natural order of things:

verb (used with object)

1. to run through or over.
2. to chase; pursue.
3. to hunt (game) with dogs by sight rather than by scent.
4. to cause (dogs) to pursue game by sight rather than by scent.
5. Masonry. to lay (bricks, stones, etc.) in courses.

verb (used without object)

1. to follow a course; direct one's course.
2. to run, race, or move swiftly:
3. to take part in a hunt with hounds, a tilting match, etc.

Origin of coursing

First recorded in 1530-40; course + -ing¹

Examples for coursing

She knew my thoughts, for tears were now coursing down her pale cheeks.

Amid the confusion my blood was coursing evenly, and I was not afraid.

It was clear that some information had been received and that it was now coursing through the crowd.

And on beyond this first buzzard, coursing above him, were other buzzards.

The Fox also successfully uses this method of coursing with relays.

coursing beneath the polished surface of the love poems is something deep, dark, and defiant.

Thoughts of supreme grandeur were coursing through his brain.

I abhorred shooting, and was badly bored by coursing and fishing.

He had come there to get out of the way of the hunting, which he hated as much as he did the coursing.

A simple chart on mortgage activity shows how rising rates are coursing through the economy.