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coursing is a noun meaning "hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent". It carries one recorded sense.
hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for coursing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.