chace

See also: Chace

English

Verb

1. (obsolete) To chase; to pursue.

Noun

chace (plural chaces)

1. (obsolete) A chase.
   • 1850, The Prelude, Book I, William Wordsworth:

     We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games / Confederate, imitative of the chace

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• cache

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Old French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃa.tsə/

Noun

chace oblique singular, f (oblique plural chaces, nominative singular chace, nominative plural chaces)

1. hunt (action of hunting)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Sire!, fet il, de ceste chace
     N'avroiz vos ja ne gré ne grace.

     "Sire!" Said he. "Of this hunt
     I have neither desire nor want"

Descendants

• → English: chace
• French: chasse

Verb

chace

1. inflection of chacer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present imperative