To pursue for the purpose of capturing or killing, as game; hunt.To pursue for any purpose; follow earnestly, especially with hostile intent; drive off by pursuing: as, to chase an enemy.To pursue; continue.To pursue; follow in pursuit.Specifically Of a hunting-dog, to leave a point for the purpose of pursuing the game. To move briskly or steadily along; hasten: as, the dog kept chasing ahead of us.n. Pursuit for the purpose of obtaining, capturing, or killing; specifically, hunting: as, to be fond of the chase; beasts of the chase.n. Pursuit, as of one's desires; eager efforts to attain or obtain: as, the chase of pleasure, profit, fame, etc.n. That which is pursued or huntedn. A vessel pursued by another: as, the chase outsailed us.n. The body of men pursuing game.n. An open piece of ground or other place reserved for animals to be hunted as game, and belonging to a private proprietor: properly differing from a forest, in that the latter is not private property and is invested with privileges, and from a park, in that the latter is inclosed.n. In the game of tennis, the spot where a ball falls, beyond which an opponent must strike his ball or lose a point.n. In old English law, a franchise authorizing a subject to whom it was granted to huntn. In printing, a square and open framework of iron, in which forms of type are secured by furniture and quoins for moving and for working on the press.n. The part of a gun between the trunnions and the swell of the muzzle, or, in modern guns in which the muzzle has no swell, the whole of that part of the gun which is in front of the trunnions.n. A groove cut in any object: as, the chase of a water-wheel; a chase in the face of a wall of masonry; the chase or groove for the arrow in a crossbow.n. In ship-building, that kind of joint by which the overlapping joints of clincher-built boats are gradually converted at the stem and stern into flush joints, as in carvel-built boats.n. The circular trough of a cider-mill, in which the apples are placed to be crushed by a revolving stone called the runner.n. A trench made to receive drain-tiles.To decorate (metal-work, especially work in the precious metals) by tooling of any kind on the exterior.To cut so as to make into a screw; cut, as the thread of a screw.To push the bottle toward one and thus call upon him to fill up his glass.To exceed a given customary standard of production.n. The conical apex of a spinning-machine cop or bobbin, or the extent of the traverse of the winding-faller wire on a spinning-mule. Sometimes called the nose.n. In carpentry, a score or shallow cut in a mortise.
