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Chase (ch&ā;s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chased (ch&ā;st); p. pr. & vb. n. Chasing.] [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL. captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See Catch.] 1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
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We are those which chased you from the field. Shak.
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Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and place.
Cowper.
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2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue; to compel to move on; to drive by following; to cause to fly; -- often with away or off; as, to chase the hens away.
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Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince to prince and from place to place. Knolles.
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3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
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Chasing each other merrily. Tennyson.
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Chase, v. i. To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.]
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Chase, n. [Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See Chase, v.] 1. Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired; the act or habit of hunting; a hunt.This mad chase of fame.” Dryden.
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You see this chase is hotly followed. Shak.
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2. That which is pursued or hunted.
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Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
Shak.
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3. An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace. [Eng.]
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4. (Court Tennis) A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive his ball in order to gain a point.
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Chase gun (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued. -- Chase port (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired. -- Stern chase (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued. -- cut to the chase (Film), a term used in action movies meaning, to shift the scene to the most exciting part, where someone is being chased. It is used metaphorically to meanget to the main point”.
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Chase, n. [F. cháse, fr. L. capsa box, case. See Case a box.] (Print.) 1. A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
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2. (Mil.) The part of a cannon from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
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3. A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
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4. (Shipbuilding) A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint, by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
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Chase, v. t. [A contraction of enchase.] 1. To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
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2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
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