COURSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coursing mean? 

• COURSING (noun)
  The noun COURSING has 1 sense:

1. hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent

  Familiarity information: COURSING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COURSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("coursing" is a kind of...):

hunt; hunting (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

Derivation:

course (hunt with hounds)

 Context examples 

At this moment I have two pages coursing after it from side to side, like hounds behind a leveret.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That kind of stuff coursing through your blood vessels doesn't sound good - obviously - but this finding might take us closer to understanding some of the issues that may strike our cardiovascular system with age.

(Bone-Like Particles Found Travelling through Human Bloodstream, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)