Word Finder - chase

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The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.

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A hunt.

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A children's game where one player chases another.

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A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.

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Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.

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A wild animal that is hunted.

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• game

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Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.

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(real tennis) The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.

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(real 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 the ball in order to gain a point.

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One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.

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To pursue.

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To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser

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I need something to chase this shot with.

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To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.

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Australia will be chasing 217 for victory on the final day.

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To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch

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To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed

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The rally chased the starter.

I don't mean to chase you out.

We chase butterflies, and sometimes catch one.

When he was little, I couldn't chase him away.

I might meet some tall, dark, handsome man on the way, and you'd chase him off.

Can't the Norfolk police chase him down?

Our dog spotted a rabbit crossing his driveway and lurched forward to give chase, tangling me in his leash as I answered.

He was too weak to chase her down this time, and she knew it.

Their food was the meat they killed in the chase, or seeds and roots, grubs or reptiles.

They chase down cases that are still pending, don't they?

That's what they do; chase old unresolved cases.

It wasn't as if she was going to chase after him.

The appearance of Drake on the Peruvian coast led to an expedition being fitted out at Callao, to go in chase of him, under the command of Pedro Sarmiento.

In tropical forests primitive tribes depend on the collection of wild fruits, and in a minor degree on the chase of wild animals, for their food.

He instantly gave in to chase her down the hall.

It seemed they had but then why bother to chase down Fred?

Martha and Quinn made their own decision; you didn't chase them off.

Finally he abandoned the chase and started rounding up the goats.

Now we shall be our own masters; we shall fight a people's war, we shall chase the Austrians out of Italy, and set up a Federal Republic."

What else do you know about this guy, and maybe others we're trying to chase down?

And chase off all the guests with your cooking?

Dean rose and wandered out to the front porch but in spite of his sterling speech, and overwhelming wish that he could forget the Shiptons and all the grief they had brought him, he couldn't quite chase the unfinished business from his churning mind.

So far he'd managed to chase two women off before he reached thirty.

Wolves do not catch their prey by lying in ambush, or stealing up close and making a sudden spring, but by fairly running it down in open chase, which their speed and remarkable endurance enable them to do.

She hopped to her feet and started to chase but scrambled out of the way.

In 1764 Moratin published a collection of pieces, chiefly lyrical, under the title of El Poeta, and in 1765 a short didactic poem on the chase (Diana 0 arte de la caza).

Special sights were introduced to overcome the difficulties of dis appearing guns, large guns firing through small ports, &c. Such were \ the Moncrieff reflecting sights, and the " chase sights " for the 10-in.

There then ensues the James Bond "chase."

They follow the most primitive forms of religion (mainly fetishism), live on products of the woods or of the chase, with the minimum of work, and have only a loose political organization.

In 633 Penda and Ceadwalla overthrew Edwin at Hatfield Chase; but after the defeat of the Welsh king at Oswald at "Hefenfelth" in 634, Mercia seems to have been for a time subject to Northumbria.

After the successful Aurelian had granted the petition of the embassy, Synesius returned to Cyrene in 400, and spent the next ten years partly in that city, when unavoidable business called him there, but chiefly on an estate in the interior of the province, where in his own words "books and the chase" made up his life.

He laid out a fine park or Paradise, for pleasure and the chase, to the east of his palaces, and built up a magnificent "triumphal way" sixty-two cubits broad and forbade any householder to encroach upon the street.

It resembles the sperm-whale in possessing a large store of oil in the upper part of the head, which yields spermaceti when refined; on this account, and also for the sake of the blubber, which supplies an oil almost indistinguishable from sperm-oil, this whale became the object of a regular chase in the latter half of the 19th century.

On the one hand he is the healing god who releases from sickness and the ban of the demons in general, and on the other he is the god of war and of the chase, armed with terrible weapons.

See Frederick Chase, A History of Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover (Cambridge, 1891).

Chase was one of the ablest political leaders of the Civil War period, and deserves to be placed in the front rank of American statesmen.

The benefit of the disafforestment existed only for the owner of the lands; as to all other persons the land was forest still, and the king's wild beasts were to "have free recourse therein and safe return to the forest, without any hurt or destruction other than by the owners of the lands in the purlieu where they shall be found, and that only to hunt and chase them back again towards the forest without any forestalling" (Manwood, On the Forest Laws - article "Purlieu") .

There are marbles in Osage and other counties, shell marble in Montgomery county, white limestone in Chase county, a valuable bandera flagstone and hydraulic cement rock near Fort Scott, &c. The limestones produced in 1908 were valued at $403,176 and the sandstones at $67,950.

Her general name in this connexion was ayporEpa (" roaming the wilds," not necessarily "goddess of the chase," an aspect less familiar in the older religion), to whom five hundred goats were offered every year by the Athenians as a thanksgiving in commemoration of the victory at Marathon.

KoXeos ("sword-sheath"); and Xacipia (see above) may refer to the spoils of war as well as the chase.

The attribute of the torch will apply equally well to the goddess of the chase, and epithets such as ckcoa46pos, a€Xao opos, aiOoria, although applicable, are by no means convincing.

Similar figures were Artemis Coloene, worshipped at Lake Coloe near Sardis; Artemis Cordax, celebrated in wanton dances on Mount Sipylus; the Persian Artemis, identical with Anaitis Bendis, was a Thracian goddess of war and the chase, whose cult was introduced into Attica in the middle of the 5th century B.C. by Thracian metics.

The chase in the summer occupied the freemen, not only as a source of enjoyment but also as a matter of necessity, for wolves were very numerous.

The dog handler and dog gave chase and arrested the assailant.

The chase is fast and furious, skidding down stretches of icy road and hair-pin bends.

By the time we get to the almost criminally enjoyable climactic chase, we're completely and utterly hooked.

After a short and frantic chase, one trail veered off to the right and the other continued straight ahead.

The phenomenon the wise men had followed, always possibly a wild goose chase, had turned out to be for real.

Tell your dog to stand, then make him chase his tail.

Have your puppy roll onto his back, then tell him to chase his tail.

In the Chillingham cattle the ears are generally red, although sometimes black, and the muzzle is brown; while in the breed at Cadzow Chase, Lanarkshire, both ears and muzzle are black, and there are usually flecks of black on the head and forequarters.