We are those which chased you from the field.
--Shak.
Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through
time and place. --Cowper.
2. 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.
Chased by their brother's endless malice from prince
to prince and from place to place. --Knolles.
3. To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.
Chasing each other merrily. --Tennyson.
2. (Mil.) The part of a cannon from the re["e]nforce or the
trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See {Cannon}.
3. A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench,
as for the reception of drain tile.
4. (Shipbuilding) 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.
You see this chase is hotly followed. --Shak.
2. That which is pursued or hunted.
Nay, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase, For I
myself must hunt this deer to death. --Shak.
3. 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. [Eng.]
4. (Court Tennis) 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.
{Chase gun} (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of
an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in
defending the vessel when pursued.
{Chase port} (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is
fired.
{Stern chase} (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel
follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.
2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.