'Hunt' definitions:

Definition of 'Hunt'

From: WordNet
noun
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn: Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
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United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt]
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British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt]
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An association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: hunt, hunt club]
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An instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
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The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone [syn: search, hunt, hunting]
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The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts [syn: hunt, hunting]
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The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport [syn: hunt, hunting]
verb
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" [syn: hunt, run, hunt down, track down]
verb
Pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" [syn: hound, hunt, trace]
verb
Chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
verb
Yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
verb
Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
verb
Seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
verb
Search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"

Definition of 'Hunt'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. --Ps. cxl. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. [1913 Webster]
  • He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'Hunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
  • 1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. [1913 Webster]
  • Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen. xxvii. 5. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. [1913 Webster]
  • He after honor hunts, I after love. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Hunt'

From: GCIDE
  • Hunt \Hunt\, n.
  • 1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. [1913 Webster]
  • The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. An association of huntsmen. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A district of country hunted over. [1913 Webster]
  • Every landowner within the hunt. --London Field. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'hunt'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Hunt -- U.S. County in Texas

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Hunt -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000) :
76596
Housing Units (2000) :
32490
Land area (2000) :
841.156969 sq. miles (2178.586457 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
40.867547 sq. miles (105.846457 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
882.024516 sq. miles (2284.432914 sq. km)
Located within :
Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location :
33.110760 N, 96.084533 W

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