Definitions for the word "hunt" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The game secured in the hunt.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A pack of hounds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
An association of huntsmen.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
A district of country hunted over.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v.
1 (also absol.) A pursue and kill (wild animals, esp. Foxes, or game) for sport or food. B use (a horse or hounds) for hunting. C (of an animal) chase (its prey). 2 (foll. By after, for) seek, search. 3 (of an engine etc.) Run alternately too fast and too slow. 4 scour (a district) for game. 5 (as hunted adj.) (of a look etc.) Terrified as if being hunted. n. 1 practice or instance of hunting. 2 a association of people hunting with hounds. B area for hunting. hunt down pursue and capture. hunting n. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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