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| —vb (often foll by for) (often foll by down) | |
| 1. | to seek out and kill or capture (game or wild animals) for food or sport |
| 2. | to look (for); search (for): to hunt for a book; to hunt up a friend |
| 3. | (tr) to use (hounds, horses, etc) in the pursuit of wild animals, game, etc: to hunt a pack of hounds |
| 4. | (tr) to search or draw (country) to hunt wild animals, game, etc: to hunt the parkland |
| 5. | to track or chase diligently, esp so as to capture: to hunt down a criminal |
| 6. | (tr; usually passive) to persecute; hound |
| 7. | (intr) (of a gauge indicator, engine speed, etc) to oscillate about a mean value or position |
| 8. | (intr) (of an aircraft, rocket, etc) to oscillate about a flight path |
| —n | |
| 9. | the act or an instance of hunting |
| 10. | chase or search, esp of animals or game |
| 11. | the area of a hunt |
| 12. | a party or institution organized for the pursuit of wild animals or game, esp for sport |
| 13. | the participants in or members of such a party or institution |
| 14. | informal in the hunt hunt down See also hunt up having a chance of success: that result keeps us in the hunt |
| [Old English huntian; related to Old English hentan, Old Norse henda to grasp] | |
| 'huntedly | |
| —adv | |
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is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| Hunt (hʌnt) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Henry, known as Orator Hunt. 1773--1835, British radical, who led the mass meeting that ended in the Peterloo Massacre (1819) |
| 2. | (William) Holman. 1827--1910, British painter; a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848) |
| 3. | James. 1947--93, British motor-racing driver: world champion 1976 |
| 4. | (Henry Cecil) John, Baron. 1910--98, British army officer and mountaineer. He planned and led the expedition that first climbed Mount Everest (1953) |
| 5. | (James Henry) Leigh (liː). 1784--1859, British poet and essayist: a founder of The Examiner (1808) in which he promoted the work of Keats and Shelley |
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Word Origin & History
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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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