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Look up: Hunt

  1. hunt
    [n] - English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) 2. [n] - United States architect (1827-1895) 3. [n] - British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) 4. [n] - an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport 5. [n] - an instance of searching for something 6. [n] - the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts 7. [n] - the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport 8. [v] - chase away, with as with force 9. [v] - yaw back and forth about a flight path (as of airplanes and rockets) 10. [v] - `The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency` 11. [v] - seek, search for 12. [v] - search (an area) for prey 13. [v] - pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
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  2. hunt
    a theorem concerning critical regions associated with a particular significance test Category: Statistics • a test to determine the distance lens correction considered best for daylight vision,consisting of the adding of convex or concave spherical lenses to the correction determined routinely,to obtain maximum acuity for black letterson a transilluminated yellow-green background Ca...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Hunt
    Hunt transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Hunted ; present participle & verbal noun Hunting .] [ Anglo-Saxon huntian to hunt; confer hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin...an (in comp.) to seize. √36. Confer Hent .] 1. To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/71

  4. Hunt
    Hunt intransitive verb 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 sc ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/71

  5. Hunt
    Hunt noun 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. [ Obsolete] Shak. 3. A pack of hounds. [ Obsolete] 4. An association of huntsmen. 5. A district of country hunted over. « Every landowner within ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/71

  6. Hunt
    Hunt intransitive verb 1. (Machinery) 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 s ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/71

  7. Hunt
    Hunt transitive verb (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/71

  8. hunt
    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 ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. hunt
    hunting noun the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. hunt
    hunt club noun an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
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  11. hunt
    noun an instance of searching for something; `the hunt for submarines`
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  12. hunt
    run 2 hunt down verb 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`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. Hunt
    noun United States architect (1827-1895)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. Hunt
    A `hunt` is an activity during which humans or animals chase some prey, such as wild or specially bred animals (traditionally targeted species are known as game), in order to catch or kill them, either for food, sale or hobby. See hunting. The word also applies collectively to a group of hunters practicing such a hunt, especially with dogs. See fox hunting. It may also, at least since circa 1200, take the form of a search for a specified targe...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt

  15. Hunt
    • (v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. • (v. t.) To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish. • (v. i.) To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds. • (v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to cha...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  16. Hunt
    Hunt is a English boy name. The meaning of the name is `hunter` Hunt,Hunter Hunt doesn`t appear In 2007`s top-1000 name list.The last time Hunt appeared In the top-1000 was 128 years ago, In 1880. It ranked #982 In that year. . 1880 was a `top year` for the name Hunt. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #982. Our records
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Hunt

  17. hunt
    1. English Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
    2. United States architect (1827-1895)
    3. British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
    4. an instance of searching for something
    5. the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
    6. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
    7. the pursuit and killing or capture ...
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19 March 2010

This day in history:
Six English farm labourers were sentenced on 19th March 1834 to 7 years transportation to a penal colony in Australia for Trade Union activities. They were known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The tree under which the 'martyrs' met is now very old and reduced to a stump, but it has become a place of pilgrimage in Tolpuddle, where it is known as the 'Martyrs Tree'. A commemorative seat and shelter was erected in 1934 on the green by the wealthy London draper Sir Ernest Debenham. read more

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