Definition of Hunt

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Definition of Hunt

Hunt

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.

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.

To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The game secured in the hunt.

A pack of hounds.

An association of huntsmen.

A district of country hunted over.

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.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

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Hunt Quotations

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Marie Curie

Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
Dave Barry

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.
Brett Favre

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
Jimmy Buffett

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.
Mercedes McCambridge

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.
Tim Vine

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck

The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
C. Wright Mills

We eat, therefore we hunt.
Sarah Palin

Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock.
Meriwether Lewis

Hunt Translations

hunt in Afrikaans is jaag
hunt in Danish is jage
hunt in Dutch is bejagen, jagen, jacht maken op
hunt in German is suchen, durchsuchen, forschen, suchen
hunt in Italian is caccia, cacciare
hunt in Norwegian is jakt, jakte
hunt in Spanish is cazar, caza, acosar
hunt in Swedish is jaga

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