(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.
(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
