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Then with a fecond courfe the tables load, 
And with full chargers offer to the god. Dryden. 
Regularity; fettled rule ; Empty form.'—Men talk as if 
they believed in God, but they live as if they thought 
there was none ; their vows and promifes are no more 
than words of courfc. L'EJlrange. 
Of course. By confequence.—-With a mind unprepof- 
fefted by dodtors and commentators of any fed!, whofe 
reafonings, interpretation, and language, which I have 
been ufed to, will of courfe make all chime that way ; and 
make another, and perhaps the genuine meaning of the 
author, feem harfli, drained, and uncouth to me. Locke. 
—By fettled rule : 
Senfe is of courfe annex’d to wealth and power; 
No mule is proof again!! a golden Ihower. Garth. 
To COURSE, v. a. To hunt; to purfue.—The king 
is hunting the deer; I am courfmg myfelf. Skakefpcarc. 
Tlie big round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nofe 
In piteous chafe. Shahcfpeare. 
To purfue with dogs that hunt in view.—It would be 
tried alfo in flying of hawks, or in courfmg of a deer, or 
hart, with greyhounds. Bacon. —To put to fpeed; to 
force to run : 
When they have an appetite 
To venerv, let them not drink nor eat, 
And courfc them oft, and tire them in the heat. May's Virg. 
To COURSE, v. it. To run; to rove about.—The 
blood, before cold and fettled, left the liver white and 
pale, which is the badge of pufillanimity and cowardice ; 
but the fherris warms it, and makes it courfe from the in¬ 
wards to the parts extreme. Shahcfpeare. 
All, at once 
Relapfing quick, as quickly re-afcend 
And mix, and thwart, extinguifli, and renew, 
All ether courfmg in a maze of light. Thomfon. 
COURSEGOU'LES, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Var, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trid! of St. Paul : two leagues north of St. Paul. 
COUR'SER, f. [from courfc ; courfer, Fr.] A fwift 
horle ; a war horfe : a word not. ufed in profe : 
Th’ impatient courfer pants in every vein, 
And, pawing, feems to beat the diftant plain ; 
Hills, vales, and floods, appear already crofs’d, 
And, ere he Harts, a thouland Heps are loft. Pope. 
One w ho purfues the fport of courting hares.—A leafli 
is a leathern thong, by which a falconer holds his hawk, 
or a courfer leads his greyhound. Hanmer. 
COUR'SIN G,f A well-known diverfion among fportf- 
ynen, formerly tiled of the deer and the fox, but now only 
©f the hare. The laws of courfmg are as follow : i. He 
that is chofen fewterer or letter-loofe of the dogs, (hall 
receive the greyhounds matched to run together into his 
leafli as foon as he enters the field. 2. A hare ought 
never to be courfed with more than a brace of greyhounds. 
3. The hare-finder is to give the hare three fohoes before 
he puts her up from her form or feat, that the dogs may 
be prepared and attend her ftarting. 4. If there be not 
a particular danger of lofing the hare, file fliould have 
about twelve-fcore yards law. 5. The dog that gives 
the firft turn, if after that there be neither cote, flip, nor 
wrench, wins the ftakes. 6. A go-by, or bearing the 
hare, is counted equivalent to two turns. 7. If neither 
dog turns the hare, he that leads to the lad covert wins. 
8. If any dog turns the hare, ferves himfelf, and turns 
her again, it is as much as a cote, and a cote is efteemed 
as much as two turns. 9. If all the courfe be equal, he 
that bears the hare fliall win ; and if he be not borne, 
tiie courfe (hall then be judged dead. 10. If a dog take 
a fall in his courfe, and yet perform his part, he may 
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challenge the advantage of a turn more than he gave. 
11. If a dog turn the hare, ferve himfelf, and give di¬ 
vers cotes, and yet in the end (hall (land (till in the field, 
the other dog, if he turns home to the covert, although 
he gives no other, fliall be adjudged to win the ftakes. 
12. If by misfortune a dog be rid over in the courfe, 
that courfe fliall be adjudged void, and he that did the 
mifchief is to make reparation to the owner. 13. If a 
dog gives the firft and laft turn, and there be no other 
advantage betwixt them, he that gives the odd turn 
wins. 14. A cote is when a greyhound goes endways by 
the fide of his fellow, and gives the hare a turn. 15. A 
cote ferves for two turns, and two trippings or jerkings 
for a cote ; and if the hare turns not quite about, (he 
only wrenches, in the fport (man’s phrafe. 16. If there 
be no cotes given by either of the greyhounds, but one 
ferves the other at turning, then he that gives the mod 
turns wins. 17. Sometimes a hare does not turn, but 
wrenches; for (lie does not turn except die turns, as it 
were, quite round. In thefe cafes two wrenches Hand 
for one turn. iX. He that comes in firft at the death of 
the hare takes her up, and faves her from breaking; he 
cher.iflies the dogs, cleanfes their mouths from the wool, 
and is adjudged to have the hare. 19. Thofe who are 
umpires of the courfe, muft give their decifion before 
they depart out of the field, or it is void. 
COUR'SON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of La Rochelle : twelve miles weft of Rochelle. 
COUR'SON, a town of France, in the department of 
the Yonne : ten miles fouth-weft of Auxerre. 
COURT, f. \_cour, Fr. koert, Dut. curtis, low Lat.] The 
place where the prince refides; the palace.—His exadt- 
nefs, that every man fliould have his due, wasfuch, that 
you would think he had never leen a court: the polite- 
nefs with whicli this juftice was adminiftered, would 
convince you he never had ived out of one. Prior. —A 
fuppliant to your royal court I come. Pope. —The hall or 
chamber where juftice is adminiftered.—St. Paul being 
brought unto the higheft court in Athens, to give an ac¬ 
count of the dodtrine he had preached concerning Jefus 
and the refurredlion, took occalion to imprint on thofe 
magiftrates a future ftate. Atterbury. 
Are you acquainted with the difference 
That holds this prefent queftion in the court? Shahcfpeare. 
Open fpace before a houfe.—You muft have, before you 
come to the front, three courts: a green court plain, 
with a wall about jt; a fecond court of the fame, but 
more garniflied, with little turrets, or other embellifli- 
ments, upon the wall; and a third court, to fquare with 
the front, not to be built, but inclofed with a naked wall. 
Bacon. —A fmall opening inclofed with houfes, and paved 
with broad (tones, diftinguiftied from a ftreet. Perfons 
who compofe the retinue of a prince.—Their wifdom 
was fo highly efteemed, that fome of them were always 
employed to follow the courts of their kings, to advife 
them. Temple. —Perfons who are aflemblea for the admi- 
niftration of juftice. Any jurifdidtion, military, civil, or 
ecclefiaftical.—I have at laft met with the proceedings 
of the court baron, held in that behalf. Spectator. 
If any noife or foldier you perceive 
Near to the wall, by fome apparent fign 
Let us have knowledge at the court of guard. Skakefpcarc. 
The art of pleafing ; the art of infinuation.—I have been 
confidering why poets have fuch ill fuccefs in making 
their court, fince they are allowed to be the greatell and 
belt of all flatterers : the defedi is, that they flatter only 
in print or in writing. Szvf't. 
Haft thou been never bafe ? Did love ne’er bend 
Thy frailer virtue, to betray thy friend ? 
Flatter me, make thy court, and fay it did ; 
Kings in a crowd would have their vices hid. Dryden. 
It is often ufed in compofition in mcft of its fenfes. 
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