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Webster 1913 Edition

Hunt

Hunt

(hŭnt)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Hunted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Hunting
.]
[AS.
huntian
to hunt; cf.
hentan
to follow, pursue, Goth.
hin[GREEK]an
(in comp.) to seize. √36. Cf.
Hent
.]
1.
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
.
Like a dog, he
hunts
in dreams.
Tennyson.
2.
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. 11.
3.
To drive; to chase; – with down, from, away, etc.;
as, to
hunt
down a criminal; he was
hunted
from the parish.
4.
To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
He
hunts
a pack of dogs.
Addison.
5.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game;
as, he
hunts
the woods, or the country
.

Hunt

,
Verb.
I.
1.
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.
2.
To seek; to pursue; to search; – with for or after.
He after honor
hunts
, I after love.
Shakespeare
To hunt counter
,
to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one’s steps.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Hunt

,
Noun.
1.
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
The
hunt
is up; the morn is bright and gray.
Shakespeare
2.
The game secured in the hunt.
[Obs.]
Shak.
3.
A pack of hounds.
[Obs.]
4.
An association of huntsmen.
5.
A district of country hunted over.
Every landowner within the
hunt
.
London Field.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hunt

HUNT

, v.t.
1.
To chase wild animals, particularly quadrupeds, for the purpose of catching them for food, or for the diversion of sportsmen; to pursue with hounds for taking, as game; as, to hunt stag or a hare.
2.
To go in search of, for the purpose of shooting; as, to hunt wolves, bears, squirrels or partridges. This is the common use of the word in America. It includes fowling by shooting.
3.
To pursue; to follow closely.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps.140.
4.
To use, direct or mange hounds in the chase.
He hunts a pack of dogs.
To hunt out or after, to seek; to search for.
To hunt from, to pursue and drive out or away.
To hunt down, to depress; to bear down by persecution or violence.

HUNT

,
Verb.
I.
To follow the chase. Gen.27.
1.
To seek wild animals for game, or for killing them by shooting when noxious; with for; as, to hunt for bears or wolves; to hunt for quails, or for ducks.
2.
To seek by close pursuit; to search; with for.
The adulteress will hunt for the precious life. Prov.6.

HUNT

,
Noun.
A chase of wild animals for catching them.
1.
A huntsman. [Not in use.]
2.
A pack of hounds.
3.
Pursuit; chase.
4.
A seeking of wild animals of any kind for game; as a hunt for squirrels.

Definition 2024

Hunt

Hunt

See also: hunt

English

Proper noun

Hunt

  1. An English occupational surname​ for a hunter (for game, birds etc).
  2. (rare) A male given name transferred from the surname.

German

Noun

Hunt m ‎(genitive Hunts or Huntes, plural Hunte)

  1. (countable) minecart

Declension

Homophones


hunt

hunt

See also: Hunt

English

Verb

hunt ‎(third-person singular simple present hunts, present participle hunting, simple past and past participle hunted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
    • Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5
      Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
    • Tennyson
      Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
    • 2010, Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:
      State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.
    Her uncle is out hunting deer, now that it is open season.‎
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find something; search (for).
    • William Shakespeare
      He after honour hunts, I after love.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
    • 2004, Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:
      My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.
    • 2011, Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):
      What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.
    The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.‎
    The police are hunting for evidence.
  3. (transitive) To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc.
    to hunt down a criminal
    He was hunted from the parish.
  4. (transitive) To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.
    • Addison
      He hunts a pack of dogs.
    Did you hunt that pony last week?‎
  5. (transitive) To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
    He hunts the woods, or the country.
  6. (bell-ringing, transitive) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
  7. (bell-ringing, intransitive) To shift up and down in order regularly.
  8. (engineering, intransitive) 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, etc.; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hunt ‎(plural hunts)

  1. The act of hunting.
  2. A hunting expedition.
  3. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).

Derived terms

Translations

Estonian

Etymology

Most likely from Middle Low German hunt. Possibly an earlier loan from Proto-Germanic *hundaz.

Noun

hunt ‎(genitive hundi, partitive hunti)

  1. wolf, grey wolf

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hundaz, whence also Old English hund, Old Norse hundr.

Noun

hunt m

  1. dog

Descendants

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʌnt/

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