chase (v.) Copy link • chase (v.): to engrave: caelo, 1: magnificent and expensively c.d vases, vasa magnifica et pretiose caelata., Cic.: to c. shields with gold and silver, c. scuta auro et argento, Liv.: to c. anything on gold, c. aliquid in auro, Virg. Phr.: a tool for c.-ing, caelum: v. graver: c.d work or the art of chasing, caelātūra: Cic.: Quint.: also, caelāmen, and pl. caelamina (the work): Ov.: Plin.