hunt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To pursue (game) for food or sport.
2. v. To search through (an area) for prey: hunted the ridges.
3. v. To make use of (hounds, for example) in pursuing game.
4. v. To pursue intensively so as to capture or kill: hunted down the escaped convict.
5. v. To seek out; search for.
6. v. To drive out forcibly, especially by harassing; chase away: hunted the newcomers out of town.
7. v. To pursue game.
8. v. To make a search; seek.
9. v. Aerospace To yaw back and forth about a flight path, as if seeking a new direction or another angle of attack. Used of an aircraft, rocket, or space vehicle.
10. v. Aerospace To rotate up and down or back and forth without being deflected by the pilot. Used of a control surface or a rocket motor in gimbals.
11. v. Engineering To oscillate about a selected value. Used of a machine, instrument, or system.
12. v. Engineering To swing back and forth; oscillate. Used of an indicator on a display or instrument panel.
13. n. The act or sport of hunting: an enthusiast for the hunt.
14. n. A hunting expedition or outing, usually with horses and hounds.
15. n. Those taking part in such an expedition or outing.
16. n. A diligent search or pursuit: on a hunt for cheap gas.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To chase, as wild animals, for the purpose of catching or killing; search for or follow after, as game.
2. To search after; pursue; follow closely.
3. To use, direct, or manage in the chase.
4. To pursue game or wild animals over; specifically, to pursue foxes over: as, the district was hunted by the foxhounds.
5. To follow the chase; pursue game or other wild animals.
6. To make a search or quest; seek: with for or after.
7. In bell-ringing, to alter the place of a bell in its set according to certain rules. When the place of the bell is changing from first to last, the process is called hunting-up; when from last back to first, hunting-down.
8. n. The act of seeking for or chasing game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing them; a pursuit; a chase.
9. n. A pack of hounds engaged in the chase.
10. n. An association of huntsmen: as, the Caledonian hunt.
11. n. The region of country hunted with hounds.
12. n. Game killed in the chase.
13. n. The act of seeking or searching for something; a search or inquisition.
14. n. One who hunts; a hunter; a huntsman.
15. In mech., to jump back and forth instead of remaining steady. Thus an engine governor is said to be ‘hunting’ when it goes too far in cutting off steam or putting it on, making the speed of the engine vary a little each way from the designed speed.
16. n. In bell-ringing, a bell which is taken out of its order and then hunted by the others in the peal. See hunt, v. i., 3.
17. n. In electricity, the see-sawing, surging of speed, or oscillating which sometimes occurs in synchronous motors or other electrical apparatus.

Wiktionary

1. v. To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.
2. v. To try to find something; search.
3. v. transitive, of a horse To ride at a hunt.
4. n. The act of hunting.
5. n. A hunting expedition.
6. n. An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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.
2. v. To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up
3. v. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.
4. v. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
5. v. To use or traverse in pursuit of game.
6. v. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
7. v. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
8. v. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
9. v. (Mach.) 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.
10. v. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
11. n. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
12. n. obsolete The game secured in the hunt.
13. n. obsolete A pack of hounds.
14. n. An association of huntsmen.
15. n. A district of country hunted over.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. search (an area) for prey
2. n. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
3. n. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
4. v. seek, search for
5. v. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
6. n. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
7. n. United States architect (1827-1895)
8. v. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
9. v. chase away, with as with force
10. v. yaw back and forth about a flight path
11. n. an instance of searching for something
12. n. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
13. n. British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
14. v. pursue or chase relentlessly
15. n. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone