cursour

plural cursours

1. ScotlanddialectalobsoleteCourser.

   A fey man and a cursour fearna the deil.

   1870, Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland, collected and arranged, with notes

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   Now lerges of my Lord Bothwell, The quilk infredome dois excell; He gaif to me a cursour gray, Worth all this sort that I with mell, For lerges of this new-yeir day.

   1770, George Bannatyne, Sir David Dalrymple, Ancient Scottish Poems, page 192

   In one bloody foray the M'Gregors slew forty of Sir Duncan's brood mares in the Cosche of Glenurchy, and at the same time a blood horse,—“ ane fair cursour sent to him from the Prince out of London.

   1855, Cosmo Innes, The Black Book of Taymouth