Word Direct Answers

What does "hunt" mean?

Hunt: 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. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxl.

Additional senses

  1. 2.3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
  2. 3.To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. He hunts a pack of dogs. Addison.
  3. 4.To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
  4. 5.To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. Gen. xxvii.
  5. 6.2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. He after honor hunts, I after love. Shak. To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] Shak.
  6. 7.The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. Shak.
  7. 8.The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] Shak.
  8. 9.A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
  9. 10.An association of huntsmen.
  10. 11.A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. London Field.

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