单词 | coursed |
释义 | coursedadj. 1. [ < course v.] Chased, spec. as a hare by greyhounds. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1740 |
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