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追猎,猎取;在…中狩猎;驱使…行猎;捕捉,追逐打猎;猎食

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
   1. (Mach.) To be in a state of instability of movement or
      forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large
      movement of the balls for small change of load, an
      arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down
      with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw,
      as a pair of alternators working in parallel.

   2. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.

Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. (Change Ringing)
   To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of
   changes.

Hunt \Hunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow,
   pursue, Goth. hin?an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36. Cf.
   {Hent}.]
   1. 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.

            Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.       --Tennyson.

   2. 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.

            Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
                                                  --Ps. cxl. 11.

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

   4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

            He hunts a pack of dogs.              --Addison.

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

Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
   1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
      course with hounds.

            Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen.
                                                  xxvii. 5.

   2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

            He after honor hunts, I after love.   --Shak.

   {To hunt counter}, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as
      a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak.

Hunt \Hunt\, n.
   1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase;
      pursuit; search.

            The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak.

   2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak.

   3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]

   4. An association of huntsmen.

   5. A district of country hunted over.

            Every landowner within the hunt.      --London
                                                  Field.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Hunt
     n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn: {Holman
          Hunt}, {William Holman Hunt}]
     2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: {Richard Morris
        Hunt}]
     3: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and
        Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: {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}]