The Collaborative International Dictionary
                    Cursorius cursor
                    
                        
                
                                                                    Courser \Cours"er\ (k?rs"?r), n. [F. coursier.]
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One who courses or hunts. leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. 
 --Hanmer.
- A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] 
 --Pope.
- (Zo["o]l.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.