Haunt

Definition of Haunt

Pronunciation: hänt; 277

v. t.	1.	To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] 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; - said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. - Fairfax.
	3.	To practice; to devote one's self to. 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. Haunt thyself to pity. - Wyclif.
v. i.	1.	To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. - Shak.
n.	1.	A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. 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. The haunt you have got about the courts. - Arbuthnot.
	3.	Practice; skill. Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. - Chaucer.

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