Hunt

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. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.] 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.
	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. 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.
	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. To hunt counter to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. - Shak.
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.
	3.	A pack of hounds.
	4.	An association of huntsmen.
	5.	A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. - London Field.

Noun	1.	Hunt - Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) Synonyms: Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt
	2.	Hunt - United States architect (1827-1895) Synonyms: Richard Morris Hunt
	3.	Hunt - British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) Synonyms: James Henry Leigh Hunt, Leigh Hunt
	4.	hunt - an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport Synonyms: hunt club
	5.	hunt - an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
	6.	hunt - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone Synonyms: search, hunting
	7.	hunt - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts Synonyms: hunting
	8.	hunt - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport Synonyms: hunting
Verb	1.	hunt - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" Synonyms: hunt down, track down, run
	2.	hunt - pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him" Synonyms: hound, trace
	3.	hunt - chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
	4.	hunt - yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
	5.	hunt - oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
	6.	hunt - seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
	7.	hunt - search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"

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