courelt

i. An obsolete form of cower. coure2t, v. t. [ IMG:content-1476.png:[blocks in formation] To hear the tidings of my friend Which every hour his couriers bring. Tennyson, In Memoriam, cxxvi. The establishment of relays of couriers to carry despatches between the king and his brother is regarded as the first attempt at a postal system in England. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 359. 2. A traveling servant whose especial duty is the making of all arrangements at hotels and on the journey for a person or party by whom he is employed. A French Courier - best of servants and most beaming of men! Dickens, Pictures from Italy, Going through France. Problem of the couriers, in alg . , an ancient Indian problem the data of which are that two couriers set out simultaneously from two stations, either in the same or in contrary directions, at given rates of speed: the problem is to find when and where they will meet.