coursedadj.
/kɔːst/ 1. [ < course v.] Chased, spec. as a hare by greyhounds.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [adjective]
chased1393
run1697
coursed1740
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 427 So the cours'd Hare to the close Covert flies.
1888 Harper's Mag. July 199 I swerved like a coursed hare.
2. [ < course n.] Of masonry: Laid or set in courses.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [adjective] > specific dispositions
herringbone1700
random1703
brick-on-edge1750
Cyclopean1822
uncoursed1825
long and short1835
inbond1842
throughband1844
isodomous1850
coursed1851
brick veneer1881
out-bond1882
joint-bedded1883
snecked1883
rat-trap bond1932
coigned-
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. v. 58 There are solid as well as coursed masses of precipice.
1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 173 The whole of the masonry was plain rustic coursed work.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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adj.1740- of hard etc resolution
- of hard resolution
- of hawt grees
- of heart
- of hence
- of her behalf
- of her mother's side
- of hers
- of high
- of high fashion
- of high name
- of high promise
- of high renown
- of his
- of his behalf
- of his etc kind
- of his etc own kind
- of his its kind
- of his its own kind
- of his kind
- of his mother's side
- of his own kind
- of home manufacture
- of ill example
- of in disposing mind or memory