Definition of "fox-chase" [fox-chase]

• The pursuit of a fox with hounds. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The turf and the fox-chase are his delights — the smoking-room at the"
• "Ah me! never was that gallant boy to ride a fox-chase, or to take the place amongst the gentry of his country which his birth and genius had pointed out for him!"
• "_ You seem to forget, Nelly, that I saw one wedding all through, and, indeed, bore as prominent a part in it as one of my downtrodden sex could aspire to; and as the Frenchman said, who went on an English fox-chase, _ "Une fois, c'est assez; _ I am ver 'satisfy.""