hunting

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The activity or sport of pursuing game.
2. n. The act of conducting a search for something: house hunting.
3. n. Electronics The periodic variation in speed of a synchronous motor with respect to the current.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The pursuit of game; the art or practice of pursuing wild animals in any way for the purpose of capturing or killing them; the chase, either as a source of livelihood or as a recreation or field sport; absolutely, in England, fox-hunting; coursing.
2. n. In change-ringing, the operation of changing the order in which any bell in a peal is rung. See hunt, v. i., 3. Synonyms Shooting. See gunning.
3. n. An arrangement in the number of teeth of gears in contact such that the same teeth come into touch with each other only after a number of revolutions.

Wiktionary

1. n. Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food.
2. n. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat.
3. n. engineering Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing.
4. v. present participle of hunt.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
2. n. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
3. n. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts