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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. [1913 Webster] Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen. xxvii. 5. [1913 Webster] 2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. [1913 Webster] He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To hunt counter}, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. --Ps. cxl. 11. [1913 Webster] 3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. [1913 Webster] 4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. [1913 Webster] He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. [1913 Webster] 6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [1913 Webster] The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. An association of huntsmen. [1913 Webster] 5. A district of country hunted over. [1913 Webster] Every landowner within the hunt. --London Field. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {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}, {hunt}, {hunting}] 7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts [syn: {hunt}, {hunting}] 8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport [syn: {hunt}, {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: {hunt}, {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 him" [syn: {hound}, {hunt}, {trace}] 3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted 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"