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Coursed

Coursed \Coursed\ (k?rst), a.

  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

  2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.

Coursed

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.

    We coursed him at the heels.
    --Shak.

  2. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.

  3. To run through or over.

    The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
    --Pope.

Wiktionary
coursed

vb. (en-past of: course)

Usage examples of "coursed".

The drops stung her breasts, rivered her face, and coursed coldly down her sides and legs.

Jonah suddenly hummed and crackled, and he felt the hair on the back of his neck rising as static electricity coursed through the room.

He saw her face was red-tinted, too, and that rivulets of sweat coursed down her small, pixieish features.

Anger and hate coursed through him, stronger now, growing with the glare.

The words were shaped soundlessly and she stifled her sobs, that she might not waken her bloated captor to wreak fresh horrors upon her, but the silent tears coursed from her eyes to trickle amongst the strands of her cornsilk hair.

His eyes were wide and staring, and gobbets of tears coursed down his cheeks.

A tremor coursed through her, and Devon dragged her arms free and slipped them around his neck, the shift intimately and fully aligning her body against his.

For a brief moment, within the grip of this memory, Eliza can actually feel the original surge of excitement that coursed through her then, a sense of exhilaration spurred entirely by the imaginary trip they are taking.

Now the clots coursed right along with everybody else in the mainstream, carrying big chrome-trimmed ghetto blasters that played tapes of bongos, I had to shake my head.

Somewhere a Buinite hit the net Electricity from the nuclear batteries in the nearest post coursed through the creature in a long, drawn-out thunderclap.

As for Stoker, this declaration on the heels of my Certifying his Candidacy made him truly berserk: he wrenched the motorcycle into gear, cursing, babbling, snarling at once, while tears coursed over his grimed cheeks.

Stronghand signaled, and Last Son struck down the dogs while Quickdeath twitched and croaked in agony as the venom coursed through his body.

He was dirtied with smoke and mud, through which tears coursed as he repeated his story, or what few bones of it there were.

Traffic coursed and bumper-to-bumper cars weaved from lane to lane, cutting each other off, hitting their brakes and making it hard to keep the Sentra in sight.

Then he fell flat again with a muffled thud, and a little dust came out from under him, and a half-dozen little separate skeins of sweat started down his face at one time, crossing and intercrossing as they coursed.