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Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
course with hounds.
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Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen.
xxvii. 5.
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2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
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He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak.
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3. (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.
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4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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{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 \Hunt\ (h[u^]nt), 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.
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Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson.
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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.
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Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
--Ps. cxl. 11.
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3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison.
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5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
woods, or the country.
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6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
a regular course of changes.
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Hunt \Hunt\, n.
1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase;
pursuit; search.
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The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak.
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2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
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4. An association of huntsmen.
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5. A district of country hunted over.
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Every landowner within the hunt. --London
Field.
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