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hunt

  [huhnt]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to chase or search for (game or other wild animals) for the purpose of catching or killing.
2. to pursue with force, hostility, etc., in order to capture (often fol. by down): They hunted him down and hanged him.
3. to search for; seek; endeavor to obtain or find (often fol. by up or out): to hunt up the most promising candidates for the position.
4. to search (a place) thoroughly.
5. to scour (an area) in pursuit of game.
6. to use or direct (a horse, hound, etc.) in chasing game.
7. Change Ringing. to alter the place of (a bell) in a hunt.
–verb (used without object)
8. to engage in the pursuit, capture, or killing of wild animals for food or in sport.
9. to make a search or quest (often fol. by for or after).
10. Change Ringing. to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules.
–noun
11. an act or practice of hunting game or other wild animals.
12. a search; a seeking or endeavor to find.
13. a pursuit.
14. a group of persons associated for the purpose of hunting; an association of hunters.
15. an area hunted over.
16. Change Ringing. a regularly varying order of permutations in the ringing of a group of from five to twelve bells.
Origin:
bef. 1000; (v.) ME hunten, OE huntian, deriv. of hunta hunter, akin to hentan to pursue; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
hunt⋅a⋅ble, adjective
hunt⋅ed⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. pursue, track.

Hunt

  [huhnt]
–noun
1. (James Henry) Leigh  [lee] , 1784–1859, English essayist, poet, and editor.
2. Richard Morris, 1828–95, U.S. architect.
3. (William) Holman  [hohl-muhn] , 1827–1910, English painter.
4. William Morris, 1824–79, U.S. painter (brother of Richard Morris Hunt).
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hunt   (hŭnt)   
v.   hunt·ed, hunt·ing, hunts

v.   tr.
  1. To pursue (game) for food or sport.
  2. To search through (an area) for prey: hunted the ridges.
  3. To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.
  4. To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill: hunted down the escaped convict.
  5. To seek out; search for.
  6. To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away: hunted the newcomers out of town.
v.   intr.
  1. To pursue game.
  2. To make a search; seek.
  3. Aerospace
    1. To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.
    2. To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.
    3. To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.
    4. To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.
  4. Engineering
    1. To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.
    2. To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.
n.  
  1. The act or sport of hunting: an enthusiast for the hunt.
    1. A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.
    2. Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.
  3. A diligent search or pursuit: on a hunt for cheap gas.

[Middle English hunten, from Old English huntian.]
Hunt,   (James Henry)
British writer and editor of the Examiner (1806-1808). He is known for his essays defending romanticism.
Hunt, Richard Morris 1827-1895.  
American architect who supervised an addition to the Louvre in Paris and designed an extension of the U.S. Capitol (1855) as well as the base of the Statue of Liberty.
Hunt,   (William)
British painter who with Rossetti and Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His works include The Light of the World (1854) and The Scapegoat (1856).
Hunt, William Morris 1824-1879.  
American painter who brought the painting of the French Barbizon school to the attention of American artists and collectors.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

Hunt

Hunt\, v. t. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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Language Translation for : hunt
Spanish: cazar,
German: jagen,
Japanese: 狩る
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hunt 
O.E. huntian "chase game," related to hentan "to seize," from P.Gmc. *khuntojan (cf. Goth. hinþan "to seize, capture," O.H.G. hunda "booty"), from PIE *kend-. General sense of "search diligently" (for anything) is first recorded c.1200. The noun meaning "body of persons associated for the purpose of hunting with a pack of hounds" is first recorded 1579. Happy hunting-grounds "Native American afterlife paradise" is from "Last of the Mohicans" (1826).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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hunt

see happy hunting ground; high and low, (hunt); run with (the hare, hunt with the hounds).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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