Pursue

•To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.•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.•To pursue eagerly, as hunters pursue game.•To give chase; to hunt; as, to chase around after a doctor.•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.•That which is pursued or hunted.•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.•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.•A rectangular iron frame in which pages or columns of type are imposed.•The part of a cannon from the reenforce or the trunnions to the swell of the muzzle. See Cannon.•A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.•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.•To ornament (a surface of metal) by embossing, cutting away parts, and the like.•To cut, so as to make a screw thread.

ncG1vNJzZmickZ65uq%2FEpZybqpmpxqS%2BzqyqsKeimXuku8xop66qo6qyb7TTpqM%3D

 Share!