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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Bird''s-nesting :: Bird's-nesting (n.) Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents..
Venatorial :: Venatorial (a.) Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic.
Cold :: Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed..
Hunting :: Hunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hun.
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..
Tufthunter :: Tufthunter (n.) A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3..
Mousing :: Mousing (n.) The act of hunting mice.
Vulpicide :: Vulpicide (n.) One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox..
Hunter :: Hunter (n.) One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
A :: A (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging..
Woodman :: Woodman (n.) A sportsman; a hunter.
Hunter :: Hunter (n.) A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog..
Chancre :: Chancre (n.) A venereal sore or ulcer; specifically, the initial lesion of true syphilis, whether forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre..
Hunt :: Hunt (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish..
Chasable :: Chasable (a.) Capable of being chased; fit for hunting.
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To smell out; to hunt out; to find out; to detect.
Hound :: Hound (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc..
Setting :: Setting (n.) The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter..
Ferret :: Ferret (n.) To drive or hunt out of a lurking place, as a ferret does the cony; to search out by patient and sagacious efforts; -- often used with out; as, to ferret out a secret..
Fox-hunting :: Fox-hunting (a.) Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
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