CHASE
\t͡ʃˈe͡ɪs], \tʃˈeɪs], \tʃ_ˈeɪ_s]\
Definitions of CHASE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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cut a furrow into a columns
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pursue someone sexually or romantically
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the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
By Princeton University
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cut a furrow into a columns
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pursue someone sexually or romantically
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the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
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To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
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To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
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The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
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A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
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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.
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To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
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To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
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To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
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To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
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The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
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A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
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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.
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To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
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To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To pursue; especially, to hunt; drive away; to decorate, as a metal surface, by embossing, engraving, etc.; to cut, as the thread of a screw.
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To follow in pursuit.
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Eager pursuit; hunting, especially of wild beasts; that which is hunted.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To pursue: to hunt: to drive away.
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Pursuit: a hunting: that which is hunted: ground abounding in game.
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To incase: to emboss.
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A case or frame for holding types: a groove.
By Daniel Lyons
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To pursue: to hunt: to drive away.
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Earnest pursuit; hunting; that which is chased; ground stored with deer and other game beasts.
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A frame used by printers to confine types, when set in columns or pages; a wide groove; the length of a gun in front of the trunnions; a term in the game of tennis. Chase guns, those guns which have their ports at the head or stern, used in chasing or in defence when chased.
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To enchase; to emboss; to cut into the form of a screw.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To follow with intent to catch; pursue; hunt.
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To ornament by embossing.
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Earnest pursuit.
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That which is pursued.
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Hunting; hunters collectively; the hunt.
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A private game - preserve.
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A frame into which type is fastened, as for printing.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Sometimes spelt chace, eager or vehement pursuit; hunting; an earnest seeking after, as pleasure, fame, &c.; the thing sought for or hunted; open ground or retreat for the larger game.
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To pursue eagerly; to drive away; to follow eagerly after, as pleasure, profit, &c.
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To work or emboss plate as silversmiths do.
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An iron frame in which to confine types.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French] Hunting as of an enemy, or game, or some object greatly desired;—that which is pursued or hunted;—an open hunting-ground to which game resorts.
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n. [Latin] An iron frame to confine type when arranged in column or pages;—a wide groove.
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Hunting, pursuit of any thing as game; fitness to be hunted; pursuit of an enemy; pursuit of something as desirable; hunting match; the game hunted; open ground stored with such beasts as are hunted; the Chase of a gun, is the whole bore or length of a piece.
By Thomas Sheridan
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