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Meaning Of Chase
v. t.
To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an
enemy, or game; to hunt.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
v. i.
To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a
doctor.
v.
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.
v.
That which is pursued or hunted.
v.
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.
v.
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.
n.
A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type
are imposed.
n.
The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to
the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
n.
A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as
for the reception of drain tile.
n.
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.
v. t.
To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting
away parts, and the like.