chase

The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.

A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.

By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.

Through male bonding, the subculture of the hunt caught up in the mystique of the chase, the hunting party became a military force, and men discovered that they need not stop at defense: they could go out to hunt for other people's wealth.

A children's game where one player chases another.

Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not.

So we played chase up and down the concourses of the airport.

A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.

Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness.

Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.

To pursue.

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The team are chasing their first home win this season.

To pursue.

He spends all his free time chasing girls.

She was the girl, I know that now. But I pushed her away. So, I've spent every day since then chasing Amy… so to speak.

To pursue.

A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.

The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture.