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e for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

round with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy twine. Spenser. An precious stones, in studs of gold enchased, The shaggy velvet of his buskins graced. Mickle.

One who enchases.

The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.

A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the…

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uire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. Shak. His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. Shak.

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

To chase again; to chase or drive back.

To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.

A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.

ssing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

The potter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

Purchase; bargaining. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

A youth beloved by Venus for his beauty. He was killed in the chase by a wild boar.

l go along by the king's highway. Numb. xxi. 22. He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. Coleridge.

Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo.

Work chased or embossed relief.