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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chase \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chase \Chase\, n. [F. ch['a]se, 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 re["e]nforce 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chase \Chase\, v. i. To give chase; to hunt; as to chase around after a doctor. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chase \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Chase \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: chase n : the act of pursuing [syn: {pursuit}, {following}] v 1: go after with the intent to catch [syn: {chase after}, {trail}, {tail}, {tag}, {dog}, {go after}, {track}] 2: pursue someone sexually or romantically [syn: {chase after}] 3: cut a groove into "chase silver" 4: cut a furrow into a columns [syn: {furrow}, {chamfer}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Chase, AK (CDP, FIPS 12350) Location: 62.44907 N, 150.10176 W Population (1990): 38 (54 housing units) Area: 93.5 sq km (land), 2.5 sq km (water) Chase, KS (city, FIPS 12650) Location: 38.35567 N, 98.34840 W Population (1990): 577 (285 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67524 Chase, MI Zip code(s): 49623
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