HAUNTS
Noun
haunts
plural of haunt
Verb
haunts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of haunt
Anagrams
• Ushant, Utahns, saunth, sun hat, sunhat, unhats, unshat
Source: Wiktionary
HAUNT
Haunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] Etym:
[F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare
to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to
demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). sq. root36.]
1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or
intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak.
Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.
2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or
apparition.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax.
3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Chaucer.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.
4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]
Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif.
Haunt, v. i.
Definition: To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.
Haunt, n.
1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are
the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or
in his business was called a haunt.
Note: Often used figuratively.
The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure. Keble.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson.
2. The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.]
The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition