(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
woods, or the country.
(v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
course with hounds.
(v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit;
search.
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
(n.) A pack of hounds.
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
