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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



... contemporaries, have often related to me how Red Cloud was always successful in the hunt because his horses were so well broken. At the age of nine, he began to ride his father's pack pony upon the buffalo hunt. He was twelve years old, he told me, when he was first permitted to take part in the chase, and found to his great mortification that none of his arrows ...
— Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
... Archie, who, although very far from being pleased at his own situation, could not resist the inclination to torment Arthur. "It reaches clear through to India, where you used to hunt polar bears." ...
— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon
... head of the movement. As a result of the disastrous failure of the rising, public opinion turned against them, and their leaderless hordes slunk back into the Viborg Quarter, which is Petrograd's St. Antoine. Then followed a savage hunt of the Bolsheviki; hundreds were imprisoned, among them Trotzky, Madame Kollontai and Kameniev; Lenin and Zinoviev went into hiding, fugitives from justice; the Bolshevik papers were suppressed. Provocators and reactionaries raised ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... felt sure. And I thought of the streets by night. In all probability, no one had seen him come up to the chambers; but I was damped directly there; for those who carried the man down would be able to tell whence he came, and hundreds would be glad to play the amateur detective and hunt me down. ...
— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn
... would wipe out Earth when the Rats set off the sun. Man might survive. There were colonies that the Rats didn't know about. But they'd find them eventually. Without Earth, the race would be set back five hundred—maybe five thousand—years. The Rats would would have plenty of time to hunt them out ...
— The Measure of a Man • Randall Garrett


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