HUNT

noun a pack of hounds.

2. hunt ·noun an association of huntsmen.

3. hunt ·noun the game secured in the hunt.

4. hunt ·noun a district of country hunted over.

5. hunt ·vt to use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

6. hunt ·add. ·vi to shift up and down in order regularly.

7. hunt ·noun the act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

8. hunt ·vi to follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

9. hunt ·vt to use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

10. hunt ·add. ·vt to move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

11. hunt ·vi to seek; to pursue; to search;

— with for or after.

12. hunt ·vt to drive; to chase;

— with down, from, away, ·etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

13. hunt ·vt 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.

14. hunt ·vt 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.

15. hunt ·add. ·vi 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.