1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

4. (v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

5. (v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

6. (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

7. (v. i.) To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

8. (n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

9. (n.) The game secured in the hunt.

10. (n.) A pack of hounds.

11. (n.) An association of huntsmen.

12. (n.) A district of country hunted over.

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