1. (noun)Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
2. (noun)Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt United States architect (1827-1895)
3. (noun)Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
4. (noun)hunt, hunt club an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
5. (noun)hunt an instance of searching for something "the hunt for submarines"
6. (noun)search, hunt, hunting the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
7. (noun)hunt, hunting the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
8. (verb)hunt, hunting the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
9. (verb)hunt, run, hunt down, track down 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"
10. (verb)hound, hunt, trace pursue or chase relentlessly "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"
11. (verb)hunt chase away, with as with force "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
12. (verb)hunt yaw back and forth about a flight path "the plane's nose yawed"
13. (verb)hunt oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
14. (verb)hunt seek, search for "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
15. (verb)hunt search (an area) for prey "The King used to hunt these forests"
Definitions of 'hunt'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (noun)hunt the act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search
2. (noun)hunt the game secured in the hunt
3. (noun)hunt a pack of hounds
4. (noun)hunt an association of huntsmen
5. (noun)hunt a district of country hunted over
6. (verb)hunt 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
7. (verb)hunt 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
8. (verb)hunt to drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish
9. (verb)hunt to use or manage in the chase, as hounds
10. (verb)hunt to use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country
11. (verb)hunt to follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds
12. (verb)hunt to seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after