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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
Hunt
n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn:
Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, Richard
Morris Hunt]
3: British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and
Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry
Leigh Hunt]
4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: hunt,
hunt club]
5: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for
submarines"
6: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something
or someone [syn: search, hunt, hunting]
7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food
or pelts [syn: hunt, hunting]
8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn: hunt, hunting]
v 1: 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]
2: 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]
3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted
immigrants out of the neighborhood"
4: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose
yawed"
5: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an
undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct
frequency"
6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was
unable to locate them"
7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these
forests"
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2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[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]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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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.
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Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
--Ps. cxl. 11.
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3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison.
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5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
woods, or the country.
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6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
a regular course of changes.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Hunt \Hunt\, n.
1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase;
pursuit; search.
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The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak.
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2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
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4. An association of huntsmen.
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5. A district of country hunted over.
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Every landowner within the hunt. --London
Field.
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5. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) |
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
Headwords:
Hunt
Hunt, TX
Hunt County
Hunt County, TX
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Thesaurus Results for Hunt:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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