Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hunt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
1. (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.
2. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. (Change Ringing)
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of
changes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hunt \Hunt\, 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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hunt \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hunt \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Hunt
n 1: English 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" [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 (as of airplanes and
rockets)
5: "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"
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