Chase (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Chased (?); 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.
We are those which chased you from the
field.
Shak.
Philologists, who chase
A panting syllable through time and place.
Cowper.
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.
Chased by their brother's endless malice
from prince to prince and from place to place.
Knolles.
3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue
game.
Chasing each other merrily.
Tennyson.
Chase, v. i. To give chase; to
hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
[Colloq.]
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.
You see this chase is hotly followed.
Shak.
2. That which is pursued or
hunted.
Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other
chase,
For I myself must hunt this deer to death.
Shak.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
2. (Mil.) The part of a cannon
from the reënforce or the trunnions to the swell of the
muzzle. See Cannon.
3. A groove, or channel, as in the face
of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain
tile.
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.
Chase, v. t. [A contraction of
enchase.] 1. To ornament (a surface
of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the
like.
2. To cut, so as to make a screw
thread.
