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Definitions for: Chase
[n] the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
[v] cut a furrow into a columns
[v] cut a groove into; "chase silver"
[v] go after with the intent to catch
[v] pursue someone sexually or romantically
Webster (1913) Definition: 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. 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.
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.
Synonyms: chamfer, chase after, chase after, dog, following, furrow, go after, pursuit, tag, tail, track, trail
See Also: chase away, court, cut, dispel, drive away, drive off, drive out, follow, hound, hunt, motion, move, movement, pursue, quest, romance, run down, run off, shadowing, solicit, stalk, stalking, tag along, tailing, trace, tracking, trailing, turn back, woo
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