chasen.1
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ 1.
a. The action of chasing or pursuing with intent to catch; pursuit; hunting. See also steeplechase n., wild goose chase n.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit
chase1297
suitc1300
pursuita1387
chasingc1440
prosecution1567
dogging1611
pursuement1615
followinga1649
pursuance1648
pursual1797
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 6 Mest plente of fysch..And mest chase..of wylde bestes.
c1300 K. Alis. 199 Liouns chas..and beore baityng.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 373 Then might nought make sute and chace, Where that the game is nought provable.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xxx. sig. ccij/2 Yf he [sc. the harte] fynde dowble wayes: he rennyth not forth ryght but now hither & now thyther..that it be the harder for the houndes to fynde & to folowe his chaas [a1398 BL Add. trace] by odour & smell.
1566 J. Knox Hist. Reformation in Wks. (1846) I. 393 The Lord Seytoun..brak a chaise upoun Alexander Quhitelaw.
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 107 The Chace and following of Hereticks is more necessary than that of Infidels.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 146 Three Bulls..which they kill'd after a long Chase.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 66 Several Carranchas,..will unite in chase of large birds.
a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) 191 The Silesians made a deliberate chase after elegant and original words.
b. the chase: the occupation or pastime of hunting wild animals for profit or (more usually) sport; ‘hunting’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun]
huntethc900
huntingc1000
sleatinga1122
purchasec1325
veneryc1330
venation1386
venison1390
the chase?a1400
chasing?a1400
waithc1400
huntc1405
vanchasea1425
enchase1486
vaunt-chase1575
field sport1580
shikara1613
huntsmanshipa1631
cynegetics1646
sport of kings1735
game hunting1823
blood sport1893
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 2285 Þat neuer on Friday to wod þou go to chace.
1486 Bk. St. Albans E j a Beestys of venery, or of chace.
1606 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Pernass. (Arb.) ii. v. 31 Your speciall beasts for chase, or as we huntsmen call it, for venery.
1735 W. Somervile Chace i. 1 The Chace, I sing, Hounds, and their various Breed.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) I. iv. 268 An Asiatic, who depends for subsistence on the chace.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 424 As two fleet hounds, sharp fang'd, trained to the chace.
1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics ix. 201 Passionately devoted to the chace.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 91 Ardently fond of the chase.
1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xi. 391 Like hunted beasts of the chace.
c. Pursuit of an enemy; rout. Obsolete (except as in 1a).
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > pursuit of an enemy
chasec1325
chasingc1440
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit > hostile or violent
chasec1325
hunting-down1542
hunt1608
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > [noun] > driving away > putting to flight
chasec1325
c1325 Coer de L. 6801 There were a thousand prysoners and mo. The chace lested swythe longe.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 27 Þe toþer were affraied, Þat þei went to þer schippes, so hard he sette his chace.
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1274 Þemperours men manly made þe chace, & slowen doun bi eche side.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. xli. 79 In the Chace mony there War takyn.
1483 Cath. Angl. 59 A chase, fuga.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 37 Thair was not many slain at this chess.
1633 tr. Henry Marlborough Chron. Ireland 207 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland The chase or discomfiture of Ophaly.
1790 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 535 The chace gaed frae the north, man.
1809 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) IV. 565 I have been on the pursuit, or rather chace of Soult out of Portugal.
d. In Naval warfare: The pursuit of a ship.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > pursuit
stern-chase1627
chase1634
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 3 Wee gaue chase to a Turkish Pirat, after halfe a dayes chase, we gaue him ouer.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. i. 18 With a Man of War in Chase.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. i. 19 We have a stearn-Chase, but we shall be up with her presently.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) A Stern Chase is when the Chaser follows the Chased a-stern, directly upon the same Point of the Compass.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Chasing The admiral displayed the signal for a general chace.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy III. iv. 62 This will be a long chase, a stern chase always is.
e. Phrases: in chase is said both of the chaser and of the chased, as to be in chase (of), have in chase, hold in chase. to give chase (to): to pursue. †fair chase, a fair field; free chase (see free chase n. at free adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2).
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society > morality > rightness or justice > [noun] > fairness or equity > situation
fair chasec1400
a fair go1888
go1954
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow behind [verb (intransitive)] > pursue
followeOE
suec1325
pursuea1375
prosecute1549
bechafe1574
ret1607
to give chase (to)1634
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3250 Thai ne war fayn of that fair chace.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Diiii Where he lyst foly hath fre chace.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 143 Howbeit still all is ace, And there still a fayer chace.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 130 When a Hart is in his chase, he is greatly pained in his bowels.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. vii. 19 Spies of the Uolces Held me in chace.
1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 496 When we have anything in chase.
1634 [see sense 1d]. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xviii. 165 What suttle and unpeaceable designes he then had in chace.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Brigantine, is a small light Vessel..and is either for Fighting or giving Chase.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 383 Two of the Frigats gave us Chase.
1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. x. 57 And now the two canoes in chase divide..To baffle the pursuit.
a1842 T. B. Macaulay Armada The tall Pinto till the noon had held her close in chase.
1847 Bewicks's Hist. Brit. Birds (new ed.) I. 60 It..gives chase to small birds on the wing.
f. Short for steeplechase n., frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
bell-course1607
Palio1673
stake1696
paddock course1705
handicap1751
by-match1759
pony race1765
give and take plate1769
sweepstake1773
steeplechase1793
mile-heat1802
steeple race1809
welter1820
trotting-race1822
scurry1824
walkover1829
steeple hunt1831
set-to1840
sky race1840
flat race1848
trot1856
grind1857
feeler1858
nursery1860
waiting race1868
horse-trot1882
selling plate1888
flying milea1893
chase1894
flying handicap1894
prep1894
selling race1898
point-to-point1902
seller1922
shoo-in1928
daily double1930
bumper1946
selling chase1965
tiercé1981
1894 M. H. Hayes Among Men & Horses i. 12 The professional[s]..regarded gratuitous chase riding as an unwarrantable attempt to take the bread, or rather the whisky, out of their mouths.
1927 Daily Express 22 June 16 Seamark will seek consolation for chase misfortunes in the valuable Prix des Drags.
1969 D. Francis Enquiry vi. 78 You were riding..in a novice 'chase.
g. Music. A sequence of solos by two or more jazz musicians in which each in turn improvises for a few bars. Frequently attributive. Originally U.S.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz
jazz1918
break1926
chorus1926
stop time1929
tag1929
lick1932
riff1933
ride1935
release1936
sock chorus1936
rideout1939
screamer1940
stop chords1941
chase1942
stop chorus1942
mop1945
1942 Gems of Jazz IV. 7 It's one of the most exciting ‘chase’ choruses on wax.
1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) 342 The high point of this..performance..is a piano–guitar ‘chase’ sequence by Nat Cole and Les Paul.
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) i. 9 The ‘chase’ choruses of Bix and Tram during the late 'twenties offer another example.
2. The right of hunting over a tract of country; also, that of keeping beasts of the chase therein.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > hunting rights
(free) warren1485
chasea1500
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > hunting or fishing rights
several fishery1426
piscary1475
(free) warren1485
fishing1495
chasea1500
fugationc1503
piscage1610
fishery1703
shooting1848
shoot1861
rod1898
fishing rights1936
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xvi. 194 Thrugh all sees and sandys [read soundys] I gyf the the chace.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 38 A man may have a chase in another man's ground as well as his own.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 253 A chace is a franchise or liberty of keeping certain kinds of wild animals within a particular and known district.
3. A hunting-ground, a tract of unenclosed land reserved for breeding and hunting wild animals; unenclosed park-land.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]
fieldOE
forest1297
seta1425
chasea1440
hunting-fieldc1680
hunting-ground1721
flying county1856
hunt1857
moor1860
the Shires1860
driving moor1873
beat1875
killing ground1877
flying country1883
killing field1915
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > enclosing beasts in park > enclosure
park1222
frithc1275
warren1377
chasea1440
game preserve1806
preserve1807
preservatory1823
game reserve1828
a1440 Sir Degrev. 362 Have ye nat perkus and chas? What schuld ye do a this place.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiv. 53 Thenne shalle alle the hunters flee awaye fro the chasshe.
1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 5 A chase..for nourishyng, generacion and feeding of beastes of venery.
?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors iv. sig. B5v The inclosing of parkys, forestys and chasys.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest i. f. 6v In these three things, a Forrest doth differ from a Chase, that is to say, in particular Lawes, in particular Officers, and in certaine Courts.
1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 144 Edward Sawyer, keeper of Cranburn Chace, in Windsor Forest.
1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. viii. 291 A part of these domains consisted of parks and chaces.
1830 J. G. Strutt Sylva Brit. (rev. ed.) 28 It is almost the only forest in England in the hands of a subject; by whom, in strict language, only a chase is tenable.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xxi. 543 Their wide enclosed parks, and unenclosed chaces.
4.
a. The object of pursuit; the hunted animal.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > [noun]
preya1250
wildc1275
felon1297
wild beastc1325
gamec1330
venison1338
venerya1375
chase1393
waitha1400
quarryc1500
gibier1514
wild meat1529
hunt-beast1535
beasts of warren1539
outlaw1599
course1607
big game1773
head1795
meat1851
the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun]
preya1250
gamec1330
chase1393
waitha1400
purchasea1450
small gamec1474
quarryc1500
gibier1514
meat1529
hunt-beast1535
hunt1588
course1607
felon1735
ground-game1872
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 208 Fast after the chace he spedde.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie iii. 7 And kill at force, hart, hind..and euery chace.
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 15 When Hounds..finde some Game or Chase, we say, They Challenge.
1681 C. Cotton Wonders of Peake 6 For badgors, wolves and foxes..Or for the yet less sort of chaces.
1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 178 The frighted Chase leaves her late dear Abodes.
1822 Ld. Byron Werner i. i. 62 I have been full oft The chase of Fortune.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Mar. 4/1 The intrepid little chase lay dead and mangled.
b. Nautical. The ship chased.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > [noun] > pursuit > ship pursued
chase1627
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel which chases another > vessel chased
chase1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 The shortest way to fetch vp your chase is the best.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxix. 262 It was almost dark when we came up with the sternmost chace.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Chase, a vessel pursued by some other.
1883 Cent. Mag. 25 864 The chase opened fire on the Carolina.
5. Those who hunt, ‘the hunt’.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > group or band of hunters
blast1486
fadea1522
stalec1540
hunting-fieldc1680
chase1811
field1818
harriers1877
1811 W. R. Spencer Poems 80 And all the chace rode on.
6. The chase-guns of a ship (cf. bow-chase n., bow-chasers (see bow-chaser n. at bow n.3 Compounds 3)); the part of the ship where the chase-ports are. stern chase n. the chase-guns in the stern.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > in specific position
broadside1589
chase1622
bow-pieces1627
stern-chase1679
fore-chase1726
barbette battery1876
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > either extremity of vessel > [noun]
stemOE
stavea1400
chase1622
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea liii. 126 The Vice-admirall..began with her chace to salute her with three or foure peeces of Artilery, and so continued chasing her, and gunning at her.
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lvi. 131 Doubtlesse, it is most proper for shippes, to haue short Ordinance, except in the sterne or chase.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 55 Her Bow and chase so Gally-like contriued, should beare as many Ordnances as..she could.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiii. 60 To giue her also your full chase, your weather broad side.
1687 London Gaz. No. 2251/4 Whilst our Stern Chace so galled the rest a Stern.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 378 The galeon returned the fire with two of her stern-chace.
1795 London Gaz. 3 Feb. Firing at each other their bow and stern chases.
7. Real Tennis. Applied to the second impact on the floor (or in a gallery) of a ball which the opponent has failed or declined to return; the value of which is determined by the nearness of the spot of impact to the end wall. If the opponent, on sides being changed (see quot. 1653), can ‘better’ this stroke (i.e. cause his ball to rebound nearer the wall) he wins and scores it; if not, it is scored by the first player; until it is so decided, the ‘chase’ is a stroke in abeyance.Since the distance of the place of impact from the wall is the point of value, the common explanation in Dictionaries is ‘The place where the ball completes its first bound’.[= French chasse, Italian caccia, Spanish caza, Middle Dutch caetse, from ONF. cache, Dutch kaats. Thence Dutch kaatsspel i.e. ‘chase-play’, tennis, whence Scottish cachepell n., and caich, cach, cache n.1 The original meaning appeares to be ‘drive’, viz. the driving of the ball to such a point.]
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > real tennis > [noun] > types of play or stroke
chasec1440
loss1591
volley1596
bandy1598
back-racket1608
service1611
force1662
serve1688
serving1688
Renshaw smash1881
pass1888
railroad service1890
kicker1936
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 68 Chace of tenys play, or oþyr lyke, sistencia, obstaculum, obiculum.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 880 Marke me that chace In the Tennys play.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 403/2 Tindall is a great marker, there is nothing with him now but mark, mark, mark. It is pitie that the man wer not made a marker of chases in some tenis play.
1541 T. Wyatt Defence in K. Muir Life & Lett. (1963) 196 As a man shulde iudge a chaes agaynste hym at the tennis whear with he were not all the beste contented.
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 25 Boye, marke that chace. B. It is marked, and it is a great one [= bad one].
1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 25 I have two chaces. T. The last was not a chace, but a losse. H. Why is it a losse? T. Because you stroke it at the second rebound.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 266 All the Courts of France shall be disturbd with chases.
1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. lviii. 255 After the two chases are made, he that was in the upper end of the tennis-court goeth out, and the other cometh in.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Chace..also in the game of Tenis, the fall of the Ball in such a certain part of the Court, beyond which the opposite Party must strike the Ball next time to gain that stroke.
1820 Hoyle's Games Improved 357 Marking the chaces.
8. dialect. Haste, hurry.
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1864 J. C. Atkinson Whitby Gloss. at Chass ‘Tak your awn time ower't, there's nae chass about it.’
Compounds
C1. General attributive (cf. 1d).
chase-fight n.
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1708 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) VI. 280 A chase fight to the northward till 7 at night.
C2.
chase-gun n. ‘such guns as are removed to the chase-ports ahead or astern, if not pivot-guns’ (Adm. Smyth).
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun in specific position
nosepiecea1614
stern-piece1622
chase-piece1626
rakera1640
chase-gun1667
bow-chase1769
chaser1804
stern-chaser1815
top gun1816
bow-chaser1836
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 lxxxii. 21 Raking Chace-guns through our sterns they send.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Chase guns, are such whose Ports are either in the Head (and then they are used in chasing of others) or in the Stern, which are only useful when they are pursued or chased by any Ship or Ships.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. viii. 378 He gave orders to fire upon them with the chace-guns.
chase-halter n. a large halter with a long rein used for breaking colts.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle
haltera1000
bridleOE
brake1430
gorel1480
watering bridle1502
mollet-bridle1503
headgear1538
slipe1586
chase-halter1607
branks1657
bit-bridle1676
curb-bridle1677
chain-bridle1690
blind-halter1711
ox-riem1817
blind-bridle1833
bell-bridle1836
training halter1842
hackamore1850
Pelham bridle1875
quoiler1876
knee-halter1892
war bridle1962
side pull1965
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 76 Tye him downe to the manger, and take off his chase halter.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 29 Hauing..got a chase haltar made of strong Hempe, with the reine aboue three fadome long at the least.
1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) i. xxviii. 130 A watering snaffle, and then ouer it a strong soft chasse halter.
chase-piece n. = chase-gun n.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun in specific position
nosepiecea1614
stern-piece1622
chase-piece1626
rakera1640
chase-gun1667
bow-chase1769
chaser1804
stern-chaser1815
top gun1816
bow-chaser1836
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 19 Giue him a chase peece, A broad side.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Duckup When a shot is to be made by a chase Piece.
chase-ports n. (see quot. 1850).
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1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Bulk heads The Bulk-head afore..in which are the Chase Port.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 106 Chase-ports, the ports at the bows, or through the stern of the ship. The former..are called bow-chasers.
chase-sight n. ‘where the sight is usually placed’ (Adm. Smyth).
Draft additions December 2006
chase scene n. Film and Television an action sequence, often featuring stunts, which centres on a pursuit.
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1906 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 9 July The moving picture at the close is one of those amusing chase scenes.
1926 Variety 11 Aug. 11/1 A chase scene is a bear. It's of Don Juan carrying his Adriana away, followed by about a dozen swordsmen on horses.
1999 T. Etchells Endland Stories 124 Void House is the place where they shot the famous chase scenes for the end of Bone Grafters II.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
chasen.2
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ 1. The ‘setting’ of a gem.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > [noun] > setting
ouche1481
collet1528
chase1580
foil1587
enclosing1611
enchasement1651
setting1815
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong La Saillie & cabochon d'vne pierre preétieuse taillée en bosse, the chase wherein a precious stone is enclosed.
2. Printing. The quadrangular iron frame in which the composed type for a page or sheet is arranged in columns or pages, and ‘locked up’ by the quoins or wedges, so as to be placed in the press.
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > chase
chase1612
rack chase1882
newspaper chase1888
1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica x. 76 A printing Presse hath his seuerall parts..as the screw, the nut, the pare-tree and the chase.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xlviii. §492 The Compositor..closeth them with chases, (lest they slip out).
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 207 The form..properly arranged and confined by quoins or wedges within an iron frame, denominated a chase.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chasen.3
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ General sense: A lengthened hollow, groove, or furrow.† 1. The hollow furrow or ‘gutter’ on a crossbow wherein the arrow lies. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > part where bolt positioned
trenchefil1369
gutter1555
chase1611
trench1611
killesse1867
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coulisse d'un arbaleste, the hollow furrow wherein the arrow lyes; we call it, the gutter, or chace (of a crosse-bow).
2. The cavity of a gun barrel; the part of a gun which contains the bore; the part in front of the trunnions (or, sometimes, between the trunnions and the swell of the muzzle).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > bore > of cannon
soul1591
shaft1626
chase1647
1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery i. 47 Every Gunner ought to try his Piece, whether it be not wider in the mouth then the rest of the Chase.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Ordnance The whole Cavity or Bore of the Piece is called her Chase.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Cannon The chace comprehends the ogee nearest to the second reinforce-ring; the chace-girdle and astragal; and the muzzle and astragal.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Wad The shot would..roll out of the chace.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) Pl. 50.
1860 J. E. Tennent Story of Guns (1864) 213.
1876 Daily News 20 Oct. 3/3 Obtained by elongating the chase or barrel of the gun.
3. A groove made to receive something which lies within or passes through it: e.g.
a. A groove cut in the face of a wall, to receive a pipe, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > groove, channel, or cavity
mortisec1390
rabbet1453
rebate1532
scarcement?1553
riggle1555
chamfering1565
mortise hole1585
rebatement1592
chamfer1601
gain1848
score1850
champer1854
blind holes1869
chase1871
1871 Week's News 7 Jan. 5 It would be quite practicable to carry the pipes up in a chase by the side of the kitchen flue, and to place the cistern near the chimney stack.
b. A trench cut for the reception of drain tiles.
c. The curved water-way in which a breast-wheel rotates, so as to confine the water.
4.
a. Carpentry. ‘A score cut lengthwise for a tenon to be fixed in, as the tenon at the heels of pillars, etc.’ (Weale Rudim. Navig. 106.)
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint > groove or cavity
rabbeta1382
rabbetinga1382
mortise1440
pulley mortise1733
chase1823
housing1823
stub mortise1846
dado1875
trench1923
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 311 These joints should be chased or indented, and such chases filled with lead.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 144 A large pillar..with its..end tenoned into a chase.
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b. Shipbuilding. A kind of joint by which the overlapping joint of clinker-built boats gradually passes at the stem and stern into a flush joint as in carvel-built boats; this is done by taking a gradually-deepening rabbet out of each edge at the lands.
5. See quot. 1794.
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1794 J. Clark Gen. View Agric. Hereford 40 Chase, a stone trough used in cider-making, into which apples are thrown, and then crushed by a stone drawn by a horse into a kind of paste, provincially must.
6. The apex of a cop or bobbin of a spinning-wheel.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > spinning wheel > other parts
hake1502
temper-pin1788
heck1824
chase1902
1902 W. I. Hannan Textile Fibres Commerce 124 The shoulder acts as a good support to the chase of the cop in winding.
Compounds
chase-hooped adj. (of a gun) having the chase strengthened by hoops.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > piece of artillery > [adjective] > type of artillery by construction
chamber-bored1669
breeched1830
wire-wound1865
multicharge1883
chase-hooped1886
trunnionless1890
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 6/2 The other 43-ton guns were to be chase-hooped.
chase-hooping n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] > manufacture of firearms and ammunition > processes in
fine boring1789
chambering1827
percussioning1846
coiling1862
reinforcing1868
actioning1871
blowing1881
tubage1882
flint-knapping1887
chase-hooping1888
zeroing1908
sighting-in1958
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 June 4/2 Alterations of designs, modifications of tests, chase-hooping.
chase-mortice n. (from 4) ‘a long mortise cut lengthwise in one of a pair of parallel timbers, for the insertion of one end of a transverse timber by making the latter revolve round a centre at the other end, which is fixed in the other parallel timber’ (Gwilt).
ΚΠ
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 119 These long mortises are called pulley-mortises, or chase-mortises.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 251 On the top of these crank shafts are moving crank heads, with a chase mortice in each.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
chasen.4
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ dialect.
A green lane, esp. one leading up to a farm-house or field. Also chace-lane, chace-way.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lane > [noun] > unsurfaced
chase1639
Welsh road1771
1639 in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. XIV. 331 A Chasse lane leading from the litle Riuer to the meeting house.
c1640 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. XIV. 393 Abuting on the..Cheace way alley to the metting house.
1685 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. XIV. 366 The chase lane.
1804 in E.D.D.
1904 Essex Rev. Apr. 117 The green lanes, which in some counties are called ‘ridings’, ‘driftways’, or ‘bridle roads’, are called hereabouts by the name of ‘chaces’, or ‘chace-ways’.
1943 Notes & Queries 25 Sept. 201 Chase, green track to farmhouse or field. E. Ang.
1960 Times 15 June 14/6 Our seawall is reached by what we call locally a ‘chase’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chasev.1
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ I. To pursue with a view to catching.† 5. figurative. to chase forth: to pursue (a narrative).
1. † c. intransitive (absol.) To hunt, go hunting. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To pursue for prey or sport; to hunt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1330
teisec1400
work1568
drive1622
call1768
rattle1829
shikar1882
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue
followOE
driveOE
to go after ——OE
to come after——c1275
pursuec1300
suec1300
catcha1325
chasec1330
enchasec1380
to pursue aftera1387
ensuea1513
subsecute1548
prosecute1549
jass1577
course1587
to make after ——a1592
scorse1596
chevya1825
to take out after1865
shag1913
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 1206 Þe hert to chacen and þe hinde.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2741 Tristrem on huntinge rade, An hert chaci bigan.
c1440 Ipomydon 64 In wodde to chase the wild dere.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E4v That wont in charett chace the foming bore.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 126 The practise of hunting, chasing and taming Elephants.
1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty v. 24 Cats will risk the losing of their prey, to chase it over again.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 464 Where I have..Chaced the gay butterfly from flower to flower.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 114 For here we met..To chase..the hart with golden horns.
b. figurative.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iii. 127 To rowze his wrongs and chase them to the baie. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 13 All things that are are with more spirit chased then enioyd. View more context for this quotation
1787 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 59 The warly race may riches chase.
1851 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 4) ii. 49 Do I chase The substance or the shadow?
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (intransitive)]
huntc1000
chasec1320
sporta1635
to go out1749
shikar1872
c1320 Sir Beues 194 Þat erl swor..In þat forest he wolde chace, Þat bor to take.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. vi. 64 Thei..chacen aftre Bestes, to eten hem.
1486 Bk. St. Albans E vj b Iff youre houndis chase at hert or at haare.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvii. 78 On a day he chased in the wodes.
d. transitive. To pursue (a member of the opposite sex) amorously; also with after, and intransitive.
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the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] > pursue (a person) amorously
chase1894
to make a pass at1925
bird-dog1942
1894 [implied in: Yale Wit & Humor 49/2 [Chess tournament] If our accomplished chasers ain't able to pinch that Harvard Queen without giving up one of our own ladies in exchange, we would respectfully ask what the university is coming to? (at chaser n.1 2b)].
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 96 Ah let him alone..if he's got better sense than to chase after the little dirty sluts, whose business.
1930 J. Brophy & E. Partridge Songs & Slang Brit. Soldier: 1914–1918 193 At other periods the phrase was, ‘Chase me, girls!’;..‘Ginger, you're barmy!’..and so on.
1946 Lingua (Cape Town) May 2 The popular ‘chase’—‘he's chasing a dame in Wynberg’—is not recorded elsewhere with this meaning which may be peculiar to South Africa.
1952 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten i. 55 He doesn't give wild parties, doesn't chase after musical-comedy cuties.
1964 P. G. Wodehouse Frozen Assets vi. 113 He drank like a fish and was always chasing girls.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Jan. 30/3 He recommended two [agents] who..wouldn't chase me around a couch.
1986 P. Booth Palm Beach i. 14 Her husband had been chasing the prettier female staff for years now.
e. figurative. to chase up: to pursue (a matter, person, etc.) vigorously with a specific purpose, esp. after an earlier unsatisfactory response; to make efforts to find or obtain quickly. colloquial.
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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist in [verb (transitive)]
to stand in ——a1382
maintainc1385
willc1400
to stand fortha1425
to stick to ——1525
to tug out1631
worry1727
to stick out1833
to stick at ——1845
slog1846
stay1956
to chase up1958
1958 J. Cannan And be Villain v. 117 People won't come forward but if you chase them up they're quite ready to tell you what they've seen.
1985 Guardian 9 Nov. 21/4 By taking only the best payers, NHL avoids the troubles of chasing up debts.
2. † c. figurative. To persecute, harass. Obsolete.
a. To pursue (a flying enemy).
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > pursue enemy
quetchc1275
chasec1330
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue > with hostility or violence
seekc825
to seek afterc1175
chasec1330
huntc1385
persecute1477
to gun for1893
bloodhound1935
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 16 Right vnto Donkastre þe Danes gan him chace.
c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 1008 Yowr lord fled out of the place, And the tother gan hym chace Heder into his awyn halde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxviii. A The vngodly flyeth no man chasynge him.
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) V. 19 His appearance..put them to flight, and he chased them back to Olynthus with a loss of eighty men.
1886 Manch. Examiner 7 Jan. 5/2 A large crowd..chased the process-server and attacked the police.
b. esp. To pursue (a ship) at sea.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > pursue
chase1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 In giuing chase or chasing, or to escape being chased, there is required an infinite iudgement.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World vii. 174 We saw a small white Island which we chased, supposing it had been a Sail.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. i. 4 We were chased by two Pyrates, who soon overtook us.
a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 165 We were several times chas'd on our Passage.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 210 The boats were constantly out, chasing the vessels along shore.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > persecute
seekc825
baitc1175
war?c1225
pursuec1300
chase1340
course1466
persecutea1475
suea1500
pickc1550
pursuit1563
prosecute1588
exagitate1602
dragoon1689
harass1788
martyr1851
dragonnade1881
witch-hunt1919
vamp1970
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 6704 Þe strenthe of hungre sal þam swa chace Þat þair awen flesshe þar sal of-race.
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋452 Preyeth for hem..that yow chacen and pursewen.
?c1460 Belle Dame 287 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 61 But fervent love too sore me hath y-chaced.
1596 B. Griffin Fidessa xxix. sig. C7 Griefs, chase this earth, that it may fade with anguish.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 216 Though Fortune, visible an Enemie, Should chase vs. View more context for this quotation
d. intransitive or absol. (Former const. after.)
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)] > pursue enemy
chasec1450
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (intransitive)] > pursue
chase1748
c1450 Erle Tolous 446 Aftur hym yorne they chaste.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 53 He..styntyt swagat ye chassaris, Yat nane durst owt off batall chas.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xvii. 53 The children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines. View more context for this quotation
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iv. 37 We let out our reefs and chased with the squadron.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xv. 339 ‘Horse! horse!’ the Douglas cried, ‘and chase!’
1842 Ld. Tennyson Captain 33 ‘Chase,’ he said: the ship flew forward.
3. transitive. To pursue or run after in play.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > follow [verb (transitive)] > pursue > pursue in play
chase1830
1830 Ld. Tennyson Merman ii And then we would wander away, away..Chasing each other merrily.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 202 Lovely shapes in marble..chasing one another round the sides.
4. figurative. To call upon (a person) to fill up his glass; to push the bottle towards. Cf. hunt v. 8.
ΚΠ
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. i. 4 Why, when I fill this very glass of wine, cannot I push the bottle to you, and say, ‘Fairford, you are chased!’
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > narration > narrate, relate, or tell [verb (transitive)]
singc900
reckonOE
readOE
tellOE
showc1175
betellc1275
i-tellec1275
rehearsec1300
record1340
accounta1387
to chase forthc1386
retretec1400
reporta1402
count?a1425
recite1448
touch?a1450
repeat1451
deliverc1454
explikec1454
renderc1460
recount1477
to show forth1498
relate1530
to set forth1530
rechec1540
reaccount1561
recitate1568
history1600
recant1603
to run througha1616
enarrate1750
narrate1754
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 285 But shortly forth this matere for to chace.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 337 And shortly forth this tale for to chace.
6. intransitive. To run with speed; to hurry or rush along. (Cf. catch v. 38.) Also with off (in pursuit of something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move with urgent speed
rempeOE
fuseOE
rakeOE
hiec1175
i-fusec1275
rekec1275
hastec1300
pellc1300
platc1300
startc1300
buskc1330
rapc1330
rapec1330
skip1338
firk1340
chase1377
raikc1390
to hie one's waya1400
catchc1400
start?a1505
spur1513
hasten1534
to make speed1548
post1553
hurry1602
scud1602
curry1608
to put on?1611
properate1623
post-haste1628
whirryc1630
dust1650
kite1854
to get a move on1888
to hump it1888
belt1890
to get (or put) one's skates on1895
hotfoot1896
to rattle one's dags1968
shimmy1969
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 51 To a iustes in iherusalem he chaced awey faste.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10436 Þen Achilles come chaseand with a choise wepyn.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D6v Now chacing to and fro, Now hurtling round aduantage for to take. View more context for this quotation
1920 R. Macaulay Potterism iv. i. 172 Aunt Cynthia chased off after another exciting subject, and that was all about Gideon.
II. To cause to move off or depart precipitately.† 9. To clear (a place) of (its inhabitants, etc., by driving them out). Obsolete. rare.† 10. To drive (cattle, etc.). Obsolete.
7.
a. transitive. To drive forcibly and precipitately from, out of, to, into, etc. (a place or position).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > forcibly
chase1340
rushc1384
runa1425
swingc1540
hurricano1702
barge1903
zap1967
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 8003 Þai salle be chaced ogayne þair wille Tylle alle manere of thing þat es ille.
1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 237 Distroie synne & chasse it out of londe.
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 268 Chaced from oure heritage.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3766 Þis esau wit his manace Oute o þe land did iacob chace.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. LLiii As the smoke chaseth men oute of their owne house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. iv. 132 Loue hath chas'd sleepe from my enthralled eyes. View more context for this quotation
1636 E. Dacres tr. N. Machiavel Disc. Livy I. 191 The Principal men of the Citie being chac't out of Florence.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 11 They have..separated us and chased us from their communion.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 112 A..method of chacing from the earth one of its bitterest maladies.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 207 They had repeatedly chased him into banishment.
b. with adverbs away, forth, out, about, etc.
ΚΠ
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4316 He sal..chace þe wyndes about and þe ayre.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 955 Þe oþre.. chacyeþ forþ Olyuere.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 94 Than is it chased sore about, Till it to fire and leit be falle.
c1400 Mandeville Voiage & Travaile (1839) Prol. 3 To..chacen out alle the mysbeleevynge men.
c1450 Crt. of Love iv Of ignoraunce the mist to chase away.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. v. 104 Vpspryngis the brycht day, Chasand the clowdis of the nycht away.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. hii Their hope..chaseth away all yuell feares.
1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 61 Thy mere Image [shall] chase her Foes away.
c. reflexive. To betake (oneself), to go or run away; to depart; esp. in go (and) chase yourself. colloquial (originally U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (reflexive)] > be sent away or dismissed
packc1450
go (and) chase yourself1883
1883 G. W. Peck Mirth for Millions 79 O, you go and chase yourself. That is not small-pox Pa has got.
1893 S. Crane Maggie xv. 130 Go chase yerself.
1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) 119 Chase yourself, depart; avaunt; ‘fade away’.
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean xii. 206 Let him rest, Kid. You chase yourself below and look things over.
1937 A. Christie Dumb Witness xiii. 138 Your friend..looks shocked. Shall we send him out to chase himself round the block?
1943 J. S. Huxley TVA 74 Engineers apparently accepted the architect for what he said he was: dispenser of divine revelation in the realm of æsthetics. But they also told him to chase himself if he ventured beyond.
1959 Listener 8 Jan. 56/2 Some people will tell you to go and chase yourself. Others will just ignore you.
1968 ‘P. Hobson’ Titty's Dead v. 66 She was mentioning..that she had had enough of policemen for the day. And, mm-m, that you could go chase yourself.
8. To put to flight, scatter in flight, rout; to dispel = to chase away in 7b. Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away
feezec890
adriveeOE
aflemeeOE
off-driveeOE
flemeOE
withdrivec1000
adreveOE
to drive outOE
biwevea1300
chasec1300
void13..
catcha1325
firk1340
enchasec1380
huntc1385
to catch awayc1390
forcatch1393
to put offa1398
to cast awaya1400
to put outc1400
repel?a1439
exterminate1541
chasten1548
propulse1548
keir1562
hie1563
depulse1570
band1580
bandy1591
flit1595
ferret1601
profugate1603
extermine1634
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > causing to go away > command to go away [verb (transitive)] > drive away > put to flight
afleyOE
to bring or do on (usually a, o) flighta1225
chasec1300
aflightc1425
to put to (the) flight (or upon the flight)1489
to turn to or into flight1526
fugate1603
Achillize1672
to see off1915
c1300 K. Alis. 1754 Y schal wynne the maistrie Of Darie, and him so chase, And his men.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Prol. Þe sange of psalmes chases fendis.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xxviii. 841 If it [sc. Crisolitus] is ysette in golde and ybore in þe left schuldre, it feereþ feendes and chaseþ hem.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 29 The Danes were chased, and the Englishe men had the victory.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 67 Their rising sences Begin to chace the ignorant fumes that mantle Their cleerer reason.
1712 A. Pope To Young Lady in Misc. Poems 139 Marriage may all those petty Tyrants chace.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 9 Whose constant vigils chase the chilling damp.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel ii. xvii. 46 To chase the spirits that love the night.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > leave unoccupied [verb (transitive)] > make unoccupied > by driving out occupants
ish1537
chase1655
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 104 The Lacedemonians..purchasing Scilluns of the Eleans, built a Town there.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > impel or drive animates
sendc950
driveOE
chacche138.
chasec1400
teisec1400
to take up1542
gar1587
urge1594
herd1883
shoo1903
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. 249 Thei beren..a lytille Whippe in hire Hondes, for to chacen with hire Hors.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 58 Chasyn or drvye furþe [1499 catchyn or dryue forth bestis], mino.]
1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 147 If any Tenant..bring cattell from his other farme unto his farme within this Manor..this is called chasing and rechasing.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Chase..a driving Cattle to or from any place; as to chase a Distress to a Fortlet.
1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby ‘Chassin' tharro's’, driving the horses which are drawing the harrows.
11. chase me, Charley: (a) a catchphrase; (b) (see quot. 1945).
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > bomb > flying
rocket bomb1883
chase me, Charley1906
robot plane1929
robot bomb1934
robot1940
buzz-bomb1944
doodlebug1944
flying bomb1944
robomb1944
V-bomb1944
V-11944
V-21944
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xi. 138 The printers cried: ‘Chase me, Charley!’
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 484 Chase me, Charley! Buzz!
1945 Newsweek 4 June 90 Off the coast of Italy in 1943, British fighter pilots ran into a new German weapon trained on Allied shipping. It was a small glider with a bomb for a body. Directed by remote control from a launching plane, the device assumed attack position and hurtled itself at the target, where it exploded. The British named it ‘Chase-me-Charlie’.
1961 W. Vaughan-Thomas Anzio vii. 133 The Germans had aimed another wireless-controlled bomb at the fleet—a ‘chase-me-Charlie’ the British seamen called it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
chasev.2
/tʃeɪs/, U.S. /tʃeɪs/ 1. transitive. To adorn (metal, plate, etc.) with work embossed or engraved in relief; to engrave a surface. See also chased adj.2
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > cover with metal [verb (transitive)] > chase
begravec1325
beatc1386
chase1580
frieze1678
1438 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 110 A cuppe..chased with Rosys.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Enchasser en or, to chace in gold.
1862 Athenæum 30 Aug. 277 The great golden statues may have been cut up into rings, and chased by Woeiriot of Lorraine.
1879 H. Phillips Addit. Notes upon Coins 3 This medal appears to have been chased by hand and not to have been struck from a die.
1879 R. Jefferies Wild Life 191 Sometimes a pole which has been lying by..is found to be curiously chased, as it were, all over the surface under the loose bark by creeping things.
1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 8/6 Apparatus..for chasing, glazing, and embossing cloth.
2.
a. To set with (gems, etc.).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > set or stud (something) with gems [verb (transitive)]
pitchc1300
couchc1330
setc1370
enchasea1533
chasec1540
gem1610
ingem1611
engem?1614
gemmate1623
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 330 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 86 Most rychestly chast with margarites euery dell.
b. To ‘set’ (a gem, etc.) in. (See enchase v.2) Also figurative. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > making jewellery or setting with jewels > set or stud (something) with gems [verb (transitive)] > inlay or set (gems)
dentc1440
set1501
close1530
enchasea1533
couch1578
becrampoun1582
inset1658
chase1859
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 56 And close beneath, a meadow gemlike chased In the brown wild, and mowers mowing in it.
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chasev.3
To groove, indent.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > cut or furnish with tongue or groove
mortise1703
tongue1733
tenor1747
tenon1770
chase1823
relish1865
plough1866
cross-tongue1901
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 311 These joints should be chased or indented, and such chases filled with lead.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 106 Chased about into the carlings.
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