noun

• (uncountable) A children's game where one player chases another.
  "Some children like to be caught when playing chase, and others do not."
• (British) A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
  "Outside, the stately oaks, rooted for ages in the green ground which has never known ploughshare, but was still a chase when kings rode to battle with sword and shield and rode a-hunting with bow and arrow, bear witness to his greatness."
• (obsolete) A wild animal that is hunted.
  "As touching the Harte and such other light chases or beasts of Uenerie, the huntesmen on horsebacke may followe theyr houndes alwayes by the same wayes that they saw him passe ouer,"
• (nautical) Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.

verb

• (transitive) To pursue.
• (transitive) To pursue.
• (transitive) To pursue.
  "The team are chasing their first home win this season."
• (transitive) To pursue.
  "He spends all his free time chasing girls."

noun

• (printing) A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
  "The die-maker should work upon the surface of an imposing table. First, he places on the table the chase in which the die is to be locked up. Second, he fills in the chase with regular printer’s wood furniture, leaving space in the center for the die, and placing locking quoins near the top of the chase and on the right-hand side of the chase. Third, the cutting and creasing rules are set in the open space in the center of the chase, filling in with metal or wood furniture."

noun

• (architecture) A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
• (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.