Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chase \Chase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Chasing}.] [OF. chacier, F. chasser, fr. (assumed) LL.
   captiare, fr. L. captare to strive to seize. See {Catch}.]
   1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an
      enemy, or game; to hunt.

            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.

Chase \Chase\, n. [F. ch['a]se, fr. L. capsa box, case. See
   {Case} a box.] (Print.)
   1. A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type
      are imposed.

   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.

Chase \Chase\, v. i.
   To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.
   [Colloq.]

Chase \Chase\, n. [Cf. F. chasse, fr. chasser. See {Chase}, v.]
   1. 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. ``This mad chase of fame.'' --Dryden.

            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.

Chase \Chase\, v. t. [A contraction of enchase.]
   1. To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting
      away parts, and the like.

   2. To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

Source : WordNet®

chase
     n : the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture;
         "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in
         pursuit" [syn: {pursuit}, {following}]

chase
     v 1: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the
          mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"
          [syn: {chase after}, {trail}, {tail}, {tag}, {give chase},
           {dog}, {go after}, {track}]
     2: pursue someone sexually or romantically [syn: {chase after}]
     3: cut a groove into; "chase silver"
     4: cut a furrow into a columns [syn: {furrow}, {chamfer}]