Definition of hunt

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Hunt (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

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Head-hunter :: Head-hunter (n.) A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters.
Meet :: Meet (n.) An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting..
Beater :: Beater (n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.
Sport :: Sport (n.) Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked..
Setter :: Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A breed of dogs that tumble when pursuing game. They were formerly used in hunting rabbits.
Pearl :: Pearl (v. i.) To give or hunt for pearls; as, to go pearling..
Coursed :: Coursed (a.) Hunted; as, a coursed hare..
Chivy :: Chivy (v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch..
Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..
Huntsman :: Huntsman (n.) The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
Jack :: "Jack (v. i.) To hunt game at night by means of a jack. See 2d Jack, n., 4, n..
Cold :: Cold (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent..
Trist :: Trist (n.) A post, or station, in hunting..
Hunt :: Hunt (n.) An association of huntsmen.
Hunt :: Hunt (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
Chase :: Chase (v.) An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private property, and from a park, which is inclosed. Sometimes written chace..
Hunterian :: Hunterian (a.) Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre..
Set :: Set (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..
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