hunt /hunt/

1. To chase or go in quest of for prey or sport
2. To seek or pursue game over (land, etc)
3. To ransack
4. To use in the hunt
5. To search for
6. To pursue
7. To hound or drive
8. To drive away, dismiss (chiefly Aust)

1. To go out in pursuit of game
2. To search
3. To oscillate or vary in speed (mechanics)
4. (of a bell) to move its order of ringing through a set of changes (hunt up to be rung progressively earlier; hunt down to be rung progressively later)

1. A chase of wild animals
2. A search
3. A pack of hunting hounds
4. An association of huntsmen
5. The district hunted by a pack
6. Game killed in a hunt (Shakespeare)
7. A huntsman (obsolete)

huntˈed adjective

1. Fearful
2. Harassed

huntˈer noun

1. A person or animal that hunts (fem huntˈress)
2. A horse used in hunting, esp foxhunting
3. A watch whose face is protected with a metal case (a half-huntˈer if that case has a small circle of glass let in)

huntˈing noun

1. The pursuit of wild game, the chase
2. The moving of the order of ringing a bell through a set of changes (also adjective)

huntˈaway noun (NZ)

A dog trained to drive sheep from behind

hunt ball noun

A ball given by the members of a hunt

huntˈ-counter noun (Shakespeare)

Perhaps one who hunts counter (qv below)

huntˈer-gathˈerer noun (anthropology)

A member of a society that lives by hunting and gathering fruit, etc, as opposed eg to cultivating crops

huntˈer-killˈer noun

A surface craft or submarine designed to hunt down and destroy enemy vessels

hunter's moon noun

A full moon following the harvest-moon

huntˈing-box, huntˈing-lodge or huntˈing-seat noun

Temporary accommodation for hunters

huntˈing-cap noun

A form of cap often worn in the hunting-field

huntˈing-cat noun

A cheetah

huntˈing-cog noun

An extra cog in one of two geared wheels, by means of which the order of contact of cogs is changed at every revolution

huntˈing-crop or huntˈing-whip noun

A short whip with a crooked handle and a loop of leather at the end, used in the hunting-field

huntˈing-field noun

1. The scene or sphere of hunting, esp foxhunting
2. The assemblage of huntsmen

huntˈing-ground noun

A place or region for hunting (happy hunting-ground see under happy)

huntˈing-horn noun

A horn used in hunting, a bugle

huntˈing-knife or huntˈing-sword noun

A knife or short sword used to dispatch the game when caught, or to skin and cut it up

huntˈing-leopard noun

A cheetah

huntˈing-mass noun (obsolete)

A hasty and abridged mass said for impatient hunters

huntˈing-song noun

hunting spider noun

A wolf spider

huntˈing-tide noun

The season of hunting

hunting-whip see hunting-crop above.

hunt saboteur noun

A person opposed to all blood sports, esp foxhunting, who, usu as part of an organized group, takes action to thwart the activities of hunters

huntsˈman noun

1. A person who hunts
2. A person who manages the hounds during the chase

huntsˈmanship noun

The qualifications of a huntsman

huntsman spider noun (Aust)

Any spider of the many varieties belonging to the Heteropodidae (or Sparassidae) family, esp those of the genus Isopoda, typically large and flat-bodied, inhabiting tree bark

hunt'sˈ-up noun (Shakespeare)

1. A tune or song intended to arouse huntsmen in the morning
2. Hence, anything calculated to arouse

huntˈ-the-gowk noun (Scot)

1. The making of an April fool
2. (also huntˈiegowk) a fool's errand, a deception or a hoax, appropriate to the First of April

transitive verb

To make an April fool of

huntˈ-the-slippˈer noun

A game in which a person in the middle of a ring of people tries to catch a shoe passed round surreptitiously by the others

good hunting! (informal)

Good luck!

hunt after or for

To search for

hunt counter

To follow the scent backwards

hunt down

1. To pursue to extremities
2. To persecute out of existence
3. See also hunt (vi) above

hunt out or up

To seek out

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