From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
Hunt
n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn:
Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, {Richard
Morris Hunt}]
3: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and
Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, {James
Henry Leigh Hunt}]
4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: {hunt
club}]
5: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for
submarines"
6: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find
something or someone [syn: search, hunting]
7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for
food or pelts [syn: hunting]
8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn: hunting]
v 1: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are
running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn:
run, hunt down, track down]
2: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer
into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until
they found the him" [syn: hound, trace]
3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the
unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
4: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose
yawed"
5: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an
undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the
correct frequency"
6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but
was unable to locate them"
7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these
forests"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
course with hounds.
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Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen.
xxvii. 5.
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2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
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He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak.
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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.
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4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as
a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hunt \Hunt\ (h[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Hunting.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to
follow, pursue, Goth. hin?an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36.
Cf. Hent.]
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.
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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson.
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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.
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Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
--Ps. cxl. 11.
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3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison.
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5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
woods, or the country.
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6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
a regular course of changes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hunt \Hunt\, n.
1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase;
pursuit; search.
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The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak.
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2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
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4. An association of huntsmen.
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5. A district of country hunted over.
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Every landowner within the hunt. --London
Field.
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