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A refuge for hares.
Law. The amount of space a hare is allowed to run after being put up before the hounds are slipped. In Queen Elizabeth's time the nominal distance was twelve score yards, but since the country has become more cut up, from sixty to eighty yards is the rule.
Leash.-(1) The line used to retain the dogs until the order comes for slipping. (2) Sometimes used as a term defining the whole practice and pursuit of coursing.
Long Dogs. An old term for greyhounds.
Lurching. Of the greyhound; running cunning, and leaving the most part of the work to its opponent.
Meuse or Muse, or Musit. - (2) and (3) are obsolete. Gaps in the hedge through which the hare can escape.
Mob. To press a hare unfairly by the crowd.
National Coursing Club. - The governing body of the sport, founded in 1858. In that year they drew up a code of rules, which, very slightly altered, is now almost universally observed.
No Course. A course which, owing to accident, or to shortness of duration, gives the judge no opportunity of deciding the comparative merits of the dogs.
Ns. An abbreviation of the word "names," indicating that a greyhound is entered by other than its registered owner.
Pot-hunting.-Coursing in which the object is not to test the relative merits of dogs and game, or of dog and dog, but simply and solely to kill the hare.
Produce Stakes. - A stake for collection of puppies, usually entered before the commencement of the running season.
Puppy. A greyhound whelped on or after the