Hunting

n.

1.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. Happy hunting grounds the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Hunting box Same As Hunting lodge (below). - Tylor. Hunting cat (Zool.) the cheetah. Hunting cog (Mach.) a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. Hunting dog (Zool.) the hyena dog. Hunting ground a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. Hunting horn a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. Hunting leopard (Zool.) the cheetah. Hunting lodge a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. Hunting seat a hunting lodge. Hunting shirt a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. - Gray. Hunting spider (Zool.) a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. Hunting watch See Hunter, 6.

Noun	1.	hunting - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport Synonyms: hunt
	2.	hunting - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone Synonyms: search, hunt
	3.	hunting - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts Synonyms: hunt

HUNTING. The act of pursuing and taking wild animals; the chase.
     2. The chase gives a kind of title by occupancy, by which the hunter acquires a right or property in the game which he captures. In the United States, the right of hunting is universal, and limited only so far as to exclude hunters from committing injuries to private property or to the public; as, by shooting on public roads. Vide Feroe naturae; Occupancy.

To dream that you are hunting, denotes that you are seeking or pursuing to fulfil some inner desires, either emotional or physical. You may be in hunt for a solution or in pursuit of a sexual conquest. To dream that you hunt and kill an animal, signifies that you are trying to repress or destroy an instinctive part of yourself.analog process, angling, behavior pattern, chase, chevy, chivy, coursing, cynegetic, cynegetics, digital process, dogging, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, falconry, feeling, fishing, follow, follow-up, following, forage, fox hunting, frisk, gunning, halieutic, hawking, house-search, hue and cry, hunt, in full cry, in hot pursuit, in pursuit, input oscillation, offset, oscillatory behavior, overcorrection of error, overshoot, perquisition, piscatorial, piscatory, posse, probe, process, prosecution, pursuance, pursuant, pursuing, pursuit, quest, questing, ransacking, rummage, search, search party, search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seeking, self-excitation, shadowing, shikar, shooting, sport, sporting, stalk, stalking, still hunt, tracking, tracking down, trailing, turning over, venery

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