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Hunt   /hənt/   Listen
noun
Hunt  n.  
1.
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. "The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray."
2.
The game secured in the hunt. (Obs.)
3.
A pack of hounds. (Obs.)
4.
An association of huntsmen.
5.
A district of country hunted over. "Every landowner within the hunt."


verb
Hunt  v. t.  (past & past part. hunted; pres. part. hunting)  
1.
To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer. "Like a dog, he hunts in dreams."
2.
To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. "Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him."
3.
To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
4.
To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. "He hunts a pack of dogs."
5.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
6.
(Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.


Hunt  v. i.  
1.
To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. "Esau went to the field to hunt for venison."
2.
To seek; to pursue; to search; with for or after. "He after honor hunts, I after love."
3.
(Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.
4.
(Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. (Obs.)





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"Hunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... well furnished. After dinner, the Great Chamberlain commands cards to be brought with a great summe of money. This Duke in imagination playes with the chief of the Court. Then they carry him to walke in the gardein, and to hunt the hare, and to hawke. They bring him back into the pallace, where he sups in state. Candles being light the musitions begin to play; and the tables taken away, the gentlemen and gentlewomen fell to dancing. ...
— The Purgatory of St. Patrick • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... fur of the beaver is highly prized. The men who hunt these animals are called trappers. 11. A gentleman once saw five young beavers playing. They would leap on the trunk of a tree that lay near a beaver dam, and would push one another off ...
— McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... was to throw away all pretense of innocence. Fugitives from justice, they would have to disappear from sight in order to escape. The hunt for them would continue until ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... Dinah wouldn't be such a little fool as to go too!" burst forth the Colonel. "She's sane enough, when she isn't larking about with other fools." He glared at Sir Eustace. "And how the devil are we to know where to look, I'd like to know? We can't hunt ...
— Greatheart • Ethel M. Dell
... was meant, then he laughed. "It sure is," he said. "If you don't want them I'll help you out. I'm hollow as a hound what's been on a hunt. Good thing Christmas don't come but once a year. You can cut out lunch better'n anything else for a save-up, though. That girl over there"—he pointed his finger behind him—"ain't had nothing but a glass of milk for a month. She's got some kiddie brothers ...
— How It Happened • Kate Langley Bosher


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