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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Courser \Cours"er\ (k?rs"?r), noun [F. coursier.]
1. One who courses or hunts.
leash is a leathern thong by which . . . a courser leads his greyhound. --Hanmer.
2. A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger. [Poetic.] --Pope.
3. (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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
courser
noun: swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "courser": Houyhnhnm, Nimrod, antelope, arrow, beater, big game hunter, blue darter, blue streak, brood mare, cannonball, charger, colt, critter, dart, dobbin, eagle, electricity, entire, entire horse, equine, express train, filly, flash, foal, gazelle, gelding, greased lightning, greyhound, hare, horse, hunter, huntress, huntsman, jacker, jacklighter, jet plane, light, lightning, mare, mercury, mount, nag, prancer, quicksilver, rocket, scared rabbit, shikari, shot, sportsman, sportswoman, stalker, stallion, steed, streak, streak of lightning, striped snake, stud, studhorse, swallow, tarpan, thought, thunderbolt, top horse, torrent, trapper, trooper, war-horse, white hunter, wild horse, wind
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