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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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290 words match “HASE”

See Haze, v. t.

CHASE v. 14 definitions

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.

CHASER n. 4 definitions

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

To put out of phase, as two parts of a single alternating current.

ENCHASE v. 3 definitions

ound 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.

HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT n.

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…

MULTIPHASE a. 2 definitions

Having many phases; specif. (Elec.),

PHASE n. 4 definitions

pearance or aspect of an object of mental apprehension or view; as, the problem has many phases.

The angle expressing phase relation.

PHASE CONVERTER n.

r converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.

PHASE DISPLACEMENT n.

A charge of phase whereby an alternating current attains its maximum later or earlier. An inductance would cause a lag, a capacity would cause an advance, in phase.

PHASE METER; PHASEMETER n.

A device for measuring the difference in phase of two alternating currents of electromotive forces.

degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and the phases salt, ice, saturated solution, and vapor, the system is invariant, that is, there is only one set of conditions under which these four phases can exist in…

PHASE SPLITTER n.

A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.

PHASE SPLITTING n.

The dephasing of the two parts of a single alternating current in two dissimilar branches of a given circuit.

The French bean, or kidney bean.

Without a phase, or visible form. [R.] "A phaseless and increasing gloom." Poe.