Hunt (
http://definr.com/Hunt)
n 1: English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn:
Hunt, {Holman
Hunt},
William Holman Hunt]
2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn:
Hunt, {Richard
Morris Hunt}]
3: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and
Shelley (1784-1859) [syn:
Hunt,
Leigh Hunt, {James
Henry Leigh Hunt}]
4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: {hunt
club}]
5: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for
submarines"
6: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find
something or someone [syn:
search,
hunting]
7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for
food or pelts [syn:
hunting]
8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn:
hunting]
v 1: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are
running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn:
run,
hunt down,
track down]
2: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer
into the woods" [syn:
hound,
trace]
3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the
unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
4: yaw back and forth about a flight path (as of airplanes and
rockets)
5: "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but
was unable to locate them"
7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these
forests"