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   Hunt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hinan (in comp.) to seize. √36. Cf. Hent.]
   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.
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   Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
   Tennyson.
   
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   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.
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   Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
   Ps. cxl. 11.
   
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   To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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   To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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   He hunts a pack of dogs.
   Addison.
   
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   To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
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   (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
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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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   Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.
   Gen. xxvii. 5.
   
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   To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
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   He after honor hunts, I after love.
   Shak.
   
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   (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.
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   (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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   To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   Hunt, n.
   The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
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   The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.
   Shak.
   
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   The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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   A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
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   An association of huntsmen.
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   A district of country hunted over.
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   Every landowner within the hunt.
   London Field.
   
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