Canadian English Meaning of hunt

hunt

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Definitions and Meaning of hunt in English

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hunt (n)

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)

United States architect (1827-1895)

British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)

an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport

an instance of searching for something

the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Wordnet

hunt (v)

pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

pursue or chase relentlessly

chase away, with as with force

yaw back and forth about a flight path

oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent

seek, search for

search (an area) for prey

Webster

hunt (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.

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.

To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

Webster

hunt (v. i.)

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

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.

To shift up and down in order regularly.

Webster

hunt (n.)

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The game secured in the hunt.

A pack of hounds.

An association of huntsmen.

A district of country hunted over.

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hunt

Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910), United States architect (1827-1895), British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1

search,quest,canvas,canvas,chase,exploration,fodder,probe,pursuit,Reconnaissance

hide,lose,neglect

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