The act of one who chases another; a pursuit.
A series of brief improvised jazz solos by a number of musicians taking turns.
One or more riders who are ahead of the peloton and trying to join the race or stage leaders.
The cavity of a mold.
A division of the floor of a gallery, marked by a figure or otherwise; the spot where a ball falls, and between which and the dedans the adversary must drive the ball in order to gain a point.
Anything being chased, especially a vessel in time of war.
Any of the guns that fire directly ahead or astern; either a bow chase or stern chase.
The occurrence of a second bounce by the ball in certain areas of the court, giving the server the chance, later in the game, to "play off" the chase from the receiving end and possibly win the point.
A large country estate where game may be shot or hunted.
A kind of joint by which an overlap joint is changed to a flush joint by means of a gradually deepening rabbet, as at the ends of clinker-built boats.
A rectangular steel or iron frame into which pages or columns of type are locked for printing or plate-making.
A groove cut in an object; a slot: the chase for the quarrel on a crossbow.
A children's game where one player chases another.
A trench or channel or other encasement structure for encasing (archaically spelled enchasing) drainpipes or wiring; a hollow space in the wall of a building encasing ventilation ducts, chimney flues, wires, cables or plumbing.
The part of a gun in front of the trunnions.
A hunt; the act of hunting; the pursuit of game.
To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser.
To follow at speed.
To seek to attain.
To hunt.
To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings.
To produce enough offense to cause the pitcher to be removed.
To decorate (metal) by engraving or embossing.
To cut (the thread of a screw).
To pursue a vessel in order to destroy, capture or interrogate her.
To seek the company of (a member of the opposite sex) in an obvious way.
To place piping or wiring in a groove encased within a wall or floor, or in a hidden space encased by a wall.
To groove; indent.
To swing at a pitch outside of the strike zone, typically an outside pitch.
One who surreptitiously follows another.
All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
Sexual intercourse.
Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
The penis of a person or animal.
A tailing.
The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
The distal tendon of a muscle.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
The stern; the back of the kayak.
The buttocks or backside.
An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
To follow and observe surreptitiously.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
To pull or draw by the tail.
Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.