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.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. --Shak.
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.
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. --Chaucer.