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]:
Hunting \Hunt"ing\, n.
The pursuit of game or of wild animals. --A. Smith.
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{Happy hunting grounds}, the region to which, according to
the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and
hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and
feasting. --Tylor.
{Hunting box}. Same As {Hunting lodge} (below).
{Hunting cat} (Zool.), the cheetah.
{Hunting cog} (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared
wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number
in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting
of the same pairs of teeth.
{Hunting dog} (Zool.), the hyena dog.
{Hunting ground}, a region or district abounding in game;
esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American
Indians in search of game.
{Hunting horn}, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See
{Horn}, and {Bulge}.
{Hunting leopard} (Zool.), the cheetah.
{Hunting lodge}, a temporary residence for the purpose of
hunting.
{Hunting seat}, a hunting lodge. --Gray.
{Hunting shirt}, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of
leather.
{Hunting spider} (Zool.), a spider which hunts its prey,
instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
{Hunting watch}. See {Hunter}, 6.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hunting
n 1: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn: {hunt}, {hunting}]
2: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something
or someone [syn: {search}, {hunt}, {hunting}]
3: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food
or pelts [syn: {hunt}, {hunting}]
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