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coursed
(encz) | coursed, |
Coursed
(gcide) | Coursed \Coursed\ (k?rst), a.
1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare.
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2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
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Coursed
(gcide) | 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.
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We coursed him at the heels. --Shak.
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2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course
greyhounds after deer.
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3. To run through or over.
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The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. --Pope.
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coursed
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discoursed
(encz) | discoursed, |
Coursed rubble
(gcide) | Rubble \Rub"ble\, n. [From an assumed Old French dim. of robe
See Rubbish.]
1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc.,
used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing
courses of walls.
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Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar.
--Jowett
(Thucyd.).
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2. Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a
quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed
portion of a mass of stone; brash. --Brande & C.
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3. (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under
the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
--Lyell.
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4. pl. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted
into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.] --Simmonds.
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Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed
by leveling off the work at certain heights.
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Discoursed
(gcide) | Discourse \Dis*course"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Discoursed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Discoursing.]
1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and
inferring; to reason. [Obs.] "Have sense or can
discourse." --Dryden.
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2. To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's
views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold
forth; to speak; to converse.
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. --Shak.
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3. To relate something; to tell. --Shak.
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4. To treat of something in writing and formally.
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Undiscoursed
(gcide) | Undiscoursed \Undiscoursed\
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