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
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
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
We eat, therefore we hunt.
Sarah Palin
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Ernest Thompson Seton
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
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone
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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