chasel (chas)

[Also formerly spelled chace, hunting: as, to be fond of the IMG:content-0182.png:[blocks in formation] Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xviii. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires. 3. That which is pursued or hunted. Specifically - (a) Game which is pursued. Like some poor exiled wretch, The frightened Chase leaves her late dear abodes. Somerville , The Chase, ii. 178. (b) A ve el pursued by another: as, the chase outsailed us. 4. The body of men pursuing game. The kynge Aguysans wente in to his Cite disconfited, ffor the chace lefte of hym for to fight with the kynge vrien and his peple. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 239. 5. 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. [Eng.] A forest hath laws of her own, to take cognizance of all trespa es; she hath also her peculiar officers, as foresters, verderers, agisters, .; whereas a chase or park hath IMG:content-0183.png:[blocks in formation] 6t. In the game of tennis, the spot where a ball falls, beyond which an opponent must strike his ball or lose a point.-7. In old Eng. law, a franchise authorizing a subject to whom it was granted to hunt. Beasts of the chase, in Eng. law, properly, the buck, doe, fox, marten, and roe; but in a common sense, all wild beasts of venery and hunting.Knights of the Chase. See knight. To give chase, to pursue:: absolute or followed by to with an object: as, the squadron immediately gave chase to the enemy's fleet.Wild-goose chase, the pursuit of anything in ignorance of the direction it will take; hence, a foolish pursuit or enterprise. According to Dyce, the name wild - goose chase was applied to a kind of horse-race, in which two horses were started together, the rider who gained the lead forcing the other to follow him wherever he chose to go. =Syn. 5. Park, Woods, etc. See forest. F. cha e, a frame, a shrine, chase2 (chas), n. [ a ibilated form of OF. ca e (F. cai e ), a box, chest, > E. IMG:content-0184.png:[blocks in formation] Printers' Chase. a , frame; b, b, b, furniture of wood or A mode of securing a ceiling-joist to a binding-joist, so that their lower surfaces shall be flush. The end of the ceiling-joist has a tenon which is let into a mortise in the binding-joist. Also called pulley -mortise. E. H. Knight. chase-port (chas'port), n. The porthole at the bow or the stern of a ve el, through which the chase-gun is fired.