\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\, 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\, 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.

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