COURIR le bon bord, to make a lucky cruise; a cant phrase peculiar to cruisers or pirates, and alluding to the capture or plunder of merchant-ships.

COURIR même bora, to stand upon the same tack as some other ship in sight.

COURIR nord, sud, & c. to stand to the northward, southward, &c.

COURIR sur la terre, to stand in shore, or on shore.

COURIR sur un vaisseau, to chace or pursue a ship.

COURIR sur san ancre, to run over, or foul of the anchor.

COURIR terre à terre. See RANGER la côte.

COURIR une bordee, or bord sur bord. See LOUVIER.

COURONNEMENT, the after-part of a ship's taffarel, which is usually ornamented with sculpture.

COURROI. See COURÉE.

COURS, or COURSE, a cruise at sea.

Hence faîre COURS, to go upon a cruise.

COURS du vaisseau, the course or run of a ship; also the wake, or track marked on the surface of the water behind her. See OUAICH.

COURSIER, a bow-chace, or great brass cannon in the head of a row-galley.

COURSIER, or COURSIE, a fore-and-aft passage between the banks of a row-galley, where the comite, or boatswain, walks, to see that the slaves manage their oars, and row with application.

COURSIERE, a spar-deck, or grating-deck, reaching from the quarter-deck to the fore-castle.

COURTAGE, a tax or duty levied on all merchandises which pass by sea from one port to another.

CURVETTE. See CORVETTE.

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