*hunt*

a. Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person whose profession is to find executives to fill open positions in corporations; an executive personnel recruiter; also, a company that performs a similar service. [ PJC ]

-- Head"-hunt`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting. ] [ AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin&unr_;an (in comp.) to seize. √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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxl. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hunts a pack of dogs. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. 1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. Gen. xxvii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after. [ 1913 Webster ]

He after honor hunts, I after love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The game secured in the hunt. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A pack of hounds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An association of huntsmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A district of country hunted over. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every landowner within the hunt. London Field. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hunta. ] A hunter. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. [ 1913 Webster ]

No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. --
Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. --
Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). --
Hunting cat (Zool.), the cheetah. --
Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. --
Hunting dog (Zool.), the hyena dog. --
Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. --
Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. --
Hunting leopard (Zool.), the cheetah. --
Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. --
Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. --
Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. --
Hunting spider (Zool.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. --
Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Huntsmen 1. One who hunts, or who practices hunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Huntsman's cup (Bot.), the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. someone who tries to attract social lions as guests. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. someone who hunts lions. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. def>An organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a game in which individuals or teams are given a list of items and must go out, gather them together without purchasing them, and bring them back; the first person or team to return with the complete list is the winner. The items are sometimes common but often of a humorous sort. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting. ] [ Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE. shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. Shun. ] 1. To shun; to move from. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift. [ 1913 Webster ]

For shunting your late partner on to me. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To go aside; to turn off. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See Shunt, v. t. ] 1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gunnery) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shunt dynamo (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current from the armature to maintain the field. --
Shunt gun, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under Rifling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Shunt. Specif.: vb. n. (a) (Railroads) Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. [ British ] (b) (Finance) Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage. [ Great Britain ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Mach.) A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Elec.) A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. -- Shunt"-wound` a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. [ Cant, Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities. [ Cant, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]