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Hunt
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
(2):
(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.
(3):
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(4):
(n.) A pack of hounds.
(5):
(v. i.) 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.
(6):
(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
(7):
(v. i.) To shift up and down in order regularly.
(8):
(v. t.) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
(9):
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
(10):
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
(11):
(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.
(12):
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
(13):
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(14):
(v. t.) To drive; to chase; - with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(15):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hunt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/h/hunt.html. 1828.
