The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hunt \Hunt\, v. i.
   1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to
      course with hounds.
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            Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. --Gen.
                                                  xxvii. 5.
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   2. To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
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            He after honor hunts, I after love.   --Shak.
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   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.
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   4. (Change Ringing) To shift up and down in order regularly.
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   To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as
      a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hunt \Hunt\ (h[u^]nt), 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.
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            Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.       --Tennyson.
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   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.
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            Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
                                                  --Ps. cxl. 11.
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   3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
      hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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   4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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            He hunts a pack of dogs.              --Addison.
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   5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
      woods, or the country.
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   6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
      a regular course of changes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hunt \Hunt\, n.
   1. The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase;
      pursuit; search.
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            The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray. --Shak.
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   2. The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. A pack of hounds. [Obs.]
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   4. An association of huntsmen.
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   5. A district of country hunted over.
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            Every landowner within the hunt.      --London
                                                  Field.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Hunt
    n 1: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) [syn:
         Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt]
    2: United States architect (1827-1895) [syn: Hunt, Richard
       Morris Hunt]
    3: British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and
       Shelley (1784-1859) [syn: Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry
       Leigh Hunt]
    4: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport [syn: hunt,
       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, hunt, hunting]
    7: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food
       or pelts [syn: hunt, hunting]
    8: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
       as a sport [syn: hunt, hunting]
    v 1: 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" [syn: hunt,
         run, hunt down, track down]
    2: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer
       into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until
       they found him" [syn: hound, hunt, trace]
    3: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the unwanted
       immigrants out of the neighborhood"
    4: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose
       yawed"
    5: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an
       undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct
       frequency"
    6: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was
       unable to locate them"
    7: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these
       forests"