hunt

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"