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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
chase .
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Examples
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And chasest foming boares that flee thine awfull sight,
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8) Raphael Holinshed
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O thou art blind! thou chasest a sham, deluded by puppet shows
Psalms of the Sisters Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys 1909
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Priapus of the seashore, the trawlers lay before thee these gifts by the grace of thine aid from the promontory, having imprisoned a tunny shoal in their nets of spun hemp in the green sea-entrances: a beechen cup and a rude stool of heath and a glass cup holding wine, that thou mayest rest thy foot weary and cramped with dancing while thou chasest away the dry thirst.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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There thou chasest the stately stag on the banks of the Elkhorn,
The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844
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