Chase
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
1. Literally to drive, urge, press forward with vehemence hence, to pursue for the purpose of taking, as game to hunt. 2. To purse, or drive, as a defeated or flying enemy. Leviticus 26:7 . Deuteronomy 32:30 . 3. To follow or pursue, as an object of desire to pursue for the purpose of taking as, to chase a ship. 4. To drive to pursue.
Chased by their brothers endless malice.
To chase away, is to compel to depart to disperse.
To chase metals. See Enchase.
CHASE, n.
1. Vehement pursuit a running or driving after as game, in hunting a flying enemy, in war a ship a sea, &c. 2. Pursuit with an ardent desire to obtain, as pleasure, profit, fame, &c. earnest seeking. 3. That which may be chased that which is usually taken by chase as beasts of chase. 4. That which is pursued or hunted as, seek some other chase. So at sea, a ship chased is called the chase. 5. In law, a driving of cattle to or from a place. 6. An open ground, or place of retreat for deer and other wild beasts differing from a forest, which is not private property and is invested with privileges, and from a park which is inclosed. A chase is private property, and well stored with wild beasts or game. 7. An iron frame used by printers to confine types, when set in columns. 8. Chase of a gun, is the whole length of the bore. 9. A term in the game of tennis.
Chase guns, in a ship of war, guns used in chasing an enemy or in defending a ship when chased. These have their ports at the head or stern. A gun at the head is called a bow-chase at the stern, a stern-chase.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [3]
Chase. See Hunting .
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [4]
CHASE . See Hunting.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
Bibliography Information McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Chase'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/c/chase.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
