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| n. (person) | 1. holman hunt, hunt, william holman hunt | Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910). |
| ~ pre-raphaelite | a painter or writer dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals. |
| n. (person) | 2. hunt, richard morris hunt | United States architect (1827-1895). |
| ~ architect, designer | someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings). |
| n. (person) | 3. hunt, james henry leigh hunt, leigh hunt | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859). |
| ~ author, writer | writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). |
| n. (group) | 4. hunt, hunt club | an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport. |
| ~ gild, guild, social club, club, lodge, society, order | a formal association of people with similar interests.; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. hunt | an instance of searching for something.; "the hunt for submarines" |
| ~ search | the examination of alternative hypotheses.; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" |
| n. (act) | 6. hunt, hunting, search | the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. |
| ~ activity | any specific behavior.; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
| ~ exploration | a careful systematic search. |
| ~ foraging, forage | the act of searching for food and provisions. |
| ~ frisk, frisking | the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs.; "he gave the suspect a quick frisk" |
| ~ looking for, looking | the act of searching visually. |
| ~ manhunt | an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime). |
| ~ seeking, quest | the act of searching for something.; "a quest for diamonds" |
| ~ ransacking, rummage | a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).; "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis" |
| ~ scouring | moving over territory to search for something.; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing" |
| ~ shakedown | a very thorough search of a person or a place.; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs" |
| n. (act) | 7. hunt, hunting | the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. |
| ~ canned hunt | a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections. |
| ~ toil, labor, labour | productive work (especially physical work done for wages).; "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" |
| ~ stalking, still hunt, stalk | a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush. |
| ~ birdnesting | hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs. |
| ~ predation | the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey. |
| n. (act) | 8. hunt, hunting | the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. |
| ~ field sport, outdoor sport | a sport that is played outdoors. |
| ~ blood sport | sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting). |
| ~ battue | a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter. |
| ~ beagling | hunting rabbits with beagles. |
| ~ coursing | hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent. |
| ~ deer hunt, deer hunting | hunting deer. |
| ~ duck hunting, ducking | hunting ducks. |
| ~ fox hunting, foxhunt | mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox. |
| ~ pigsticking | the sport of hunting wild boar with spears. |
| ~ bag | capture or kill, as in hunting.; "bag a few pheasants" |
| ~ batfowl | catch birds by temporarily blinding them. |
| ~ snare, trammel, ensnare, entrap, trap | catch in or as if in a trap.; "The men trap foxes" |
| ~ gin | trap with a snare.; "gin game" |
| v. (competition) | 9. hunt, hunt down, run, 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" |
| ~ snipe | hunt or shoot snipe. |
| ~ whale | hunt for whales. |
| ~ still-hunt, ambush | hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing. |
| ~ turtle | hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation. |
| ~ drive | hunting: chase from cover into more open ground.; "drive the game" |
| ~ drive | hunting: search for game.; "drive the forest" |
| ~ rabbit | hunt rabbits. |
| ~ fowl | hunt fowl in the forest. |
| ~ poach | hunt illegally.; "people are poaching elephants for their ivory" |
| ~ seal | hunt seals. |
| ~ ferret | hunt with ferrets. |
| ~ hunt | search (an area) for prey.; "The King used to hunt these forests" |
| ~ course | hunt with hounds.; "He often courses hares" |
| ~ foxhunt | hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs. |
| ~ jacklight, jack | hunt with a jacklight. |
| ~ hawk | hunt with hawks.; "the tribes like to hawk in the desert" |
| ~ falcon | hunt with falcons.; "The tribes like to falcon in the desert" |
| ~ fowl | hunt fowl. |
| ~ capture, catch | capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping.; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" |
| ~ run | cause an animal to move fast.; "run the dogs" |
| ~ forage, scrounge | collect or look around for (food). |
| v. (motion) | 10. hound, hunt, trace | pursue or chase relentlessly.; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him" |
| ~ chase, dog, give chase, go after, tail, chase after, trail, track, tag | go after with the intent to catch.; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" |
| ~ ferret | hound or harry relentlessly. |
| v. (motion) | 11. hunt | chase away, with as with force.; "They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood" |
| ~ drive out, rouse, rout out, force out | force or drive out.; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." |
| v. (motion) | 12. hunt | yaw back and forth about a flight path.; "the plane's nose yawed" |
| ~ aeroplane, airplane, plane | an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets.; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane" |
| ~ yaw | deviate erratically from a set course.; "the yawing motion of the ship" |
| v. (motion) | 13. hunt | oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency" |
| ~ oscillate, vibrate | move or swing from side to side regularly.; "the needle on the meter was oscillating" |
| v. (contact) | 14. hunt | seek, search for.; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them" |
| ~ look for, search, seek | try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" |
| v. (competition) | 15. hunt | search (an area) for prey.; "The King used to hunt these forests" |
| ~ hunt, hunt down, track down, run | 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" |
| ~ search, look | search or seek.; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" |
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