hunt definition

1. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
2. United States architect (1827-1895)
3. British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
4. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
5. an instance of searching for something
• examples: the hunt for submarines
6. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
7. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
8. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
• examples: Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
• examples: The dogs are running deer
• examples: The Duke hunted in these woods
9. chase away, with as with force
• examples: They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
10. yaw back and forth about a flight path
• examples: the plane's nose yawed
11. oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent
• examples: The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
12. seek, search for
• examples: She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
13. search (an area) for prey
• examples: The King used to hunt these forests