Definition of hunt

• 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.