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. √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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hunt, v. t. (Change Ringing)
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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