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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 956 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHASE . (1) (Fr. See also:

chasse, from See also:Lat. cieptare, frequentative of capere, to take), the pursuit of See also:wild animals for See also:food or See also:sport (see See also:HUNTING). The word is used of the pursuit of any-thing, and also of the thing pursued, as, in See also:naval warfare, of a See also:ship. A transferred meaning is that of See also:park See also:land reserved for the breeding and hunting of wild animals, in which sense it appears in various See also:place-names in See also:England, as See also:Cannock Chase. It is also a See also:term for a stroke in See also:tennis (q.v.).

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