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Hunter   /hˈəntər/   Listen
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Hunter  n.  
1.
One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
2.
A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
3.
A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
4.
One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. "No keener hunter after glory breathes."
5.
(Zool.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
6.
A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon.
Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.






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"Hunter" Quotes from Famous Books



... T. Herbert's "Memoir of Charles I." (Vol. ii. pp., 72. 110.).—Is P.S.W.E. aware that Mr. Hunter gives a tradition, in his History of Hallamshire, that a certain William Walker, who died in 1700, and to whose memory there was an inscribed brass plate in the parish church of Sheffield, was the executioner of Charles I.? The man obtained this reputation from having retired from political ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 39. Saturday, July 27, 1850 • Various

... thy wild feet wander far Tracking the steps of some white Northern star Whose rays are beacon to thy restlessness. Weird mystic of the Northland's mystery, Thou 'front'st the Unseen Shadow, nor dost fear To meet the Scarlet Hunter on the trail; Pagan as Pan; to all things sylvan dear, Nature's own vagrant, buoyant, driftless, free— All winds and woods and waters ...
— The Path of Dreams - Poems • Leigh Gordon Giltner

... be called a female fortune-hunter; but, to coin a new name for our heroine, which may be useful to designate a numerous class of her contemporaries, she was decidedly a ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth

... splendour of Divine goodness and beauty become transformed into stags; for they are no longer hunters, but that which is hunted. For the ultimate and final end of this sport, is to arrive at the acquisition of that fugitive and wild body, so that the thief becomes the thing stolen, the hunter becomes the thing hunted; in all other kinds of sport, for special things, the hunter possesses himself of those things, absorbing them with the mouth of his own intelligence; but in that Divine and universal one, he comes to understand to such an extent, that he becomes of necessity included, ...
— The Heroic Enthusiast, Part II (Gli Eroici Furori) - An Ethical Poem • Giordano Bruno

... vigilance, with the legend [Greek: ITHAKON]. A few of these medals are preserved in the cabinets of the curious, and one also, with the cock, found in the island, is in the possession of Signor Zavo, of Bathi. The uppermost coin is in the collection of Dr. Hunter; the second is copied from Newman, and the third is the property of R.P. ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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