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H`AUNT,

1. To frequent to resort to much or often, or to be much about to visit customarily.

Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves.

2. To come to frequently to intrude on to trouble with frequent visits to follow importunately.

You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house.

Those cares that haunt the court and town.

3. It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed and deserted houses.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

H`AUNT, To be much about to visit or be present often.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my door.

H`AUNT, n. A place to which one frequently resorts. Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers. A den is the haunt of wild beasts.

1. The habit or custom of resorting to a place. Not used.

2. Custom practice.