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Chase
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.
(2):
(v. t.) To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(n.) A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.
(5):
(n.) A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(v. t.) To cut, so as to make a screw thread.
(8):
(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.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(v.) That which is pursued or hunted.
(11):
(v. t.) To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
(12):
(v. t.) To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.
(13):
(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.
(14):
(v. i.) To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Chase'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/chase.html. 1828.
