HUNT

hunt, hunting

(noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

hunt, hunting

(noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

search, hunt, hunting

(noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

hunt

(noun) an instance of searching for something; “the hunt for submarines”

hunt, hunt club

(noun) an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt

(noun) British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt

(noun) United States architect (1827-1895)

Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt

(noun) Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

hunt, run, hunt down, track down

(verb) 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”

hunt

(verb) search (an area) for prey; “The King used to hunt these forests”

hunt

(verb) seek, search for; “She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them”

hunt

(verb) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; “The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency”

hound, hunt, trace

(verb) pursue or chase relentlessly; “The hunters traced the deer into the woods”; “the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him”

hunt

(verb) yaw back and forth about a flight path; “the plane’s nose yawed”

hunt

(verb) chase away, with as with force; “They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

hunt (third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

(ambitransitive) To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport.

(ambitransitive) To try to find something; search (for).

(transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.

(transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

(transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

(bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

(bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.

(engineering, intransitive) 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, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Noun

hunt (plural hunts)

The act of hunting.

A hunting expedition.

An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to it.

A pack of hunting dogs.

Anagrams

• Thun

Proper noun

Hunt

An English occupational surname for a hunter (for game, birds etc).

(rare) A male given name from surnames.

Anagrams

• Thun

Source: Wiktionary

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Hunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.] Etym: [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin (in comp.) to seize. sq. root36. 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. Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson.

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. Ps. cxl. 11.

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. Addison.

5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

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. Gen. xxvii. 5.

2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. He after honor hunts, I after love. Shak. To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] Shak.

Hunt, n.

1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. Shak.

2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] Shak.

3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]

4. An association of huntsmen.

5. A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. London Field.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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