Chase

a. [Fr. cha er; It. cacciare; L. Lat. caciare, from cacia, a place where wild beasts are kept for being hunted; probably from Lat. cap to - capio, to take.] Το pursue, as an enemy or as game; to pursue; to hunt; to follow with eagerne or desire; as, to chase a stag. To drive, urge, or pre forward upon with vehemence; to drive away; (often followed by off or away ); as, to chase a person from place to place. -v. a. [See ENCHASE.] ( Engraving.) To embo with figures; to engrave, as a salver, . -n. Vehement pursuit of anything; a hunting or hunt; a race; as, the pleasures of the chase. -Game hunted; anything which is hunted or pursued. Honour 's the noblest chase ; pursue that game."-Granville. -Ground where game is preserved or hunted; as, Enfield Chase. "Upon the north side of this pleasant chase." Shaks. (Naut.) The ve el which is pursued by another; as, to overhaul the chase. -Earnest seeking, or pursuit of something desirable. "This mad chase of fame." - Dryden. -[Fr. cha is, a case, a shrine.] A wide groove. (Printing.) A square, iron frame for confining types when set up in pages. (Gunnery.) The part of a gun in front of the trunnions. In smooth-bored cast-iron guns it is the part between the second re-inforce ring and the neck of the piece. The whole bore or length of a piece of ordnance, taken inside. -An enchaser. chase of a piece of ordnance. on Birdsong Creek, 70 m. W. of Nashville.