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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
   1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
      course with hounds.
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            Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen.
                                                  xxvii. 5.
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   2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
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            He after honor hunts, I after love.   --Shak.
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   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.
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   4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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   To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as
      a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak.
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