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Definition of Hunt
Pronunciation: hŭnt | v. t. | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 5. | To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. | | 6. | (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. | | v. i. | 1. | To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. | | 2. | To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after. | | 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. | | 4. | (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly. | | n. | 1. | The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. | | 2. | The game secured in the hunt. | | 3. | A pack of hounds. | | 4. | An association of huntsmen. | | 5. | A district of country hunted over. |
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