Butcher, quoted in Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p

103. In the reign of Edward III. the running horses pur chased for the king's service were generally estimated at twenty marks, or thirteen pounds, six shillings, and eightpence each. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 104. Specifically, in zoöl., cursorial; gre orial; ambulatory; not salient or saltatory. 21. Capable of moving quickly; movable; mobilized. The Indians did so annoy them by sudden a aults out of the swamps, etc., that he was forced to keep a running army to be ready to oppose them upon all occasions.