n.

1. Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910);
   Hunt, Holman Hunt, William Holman Hunt
2. United States architect (1827-1895);
   Hunt, Richard Morris Hunt
3. British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859);
   Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt
4. an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport;
   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;
   search, hunting
7. the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts;
   hunting
8. the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport;
   hunting

v.

1. pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals);
   run, hunt down, track down
   
   • Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland
   • The dogs are running deer
   • The Duke hunted in these woods
2. pursue or chase relentlessly;
   hound, trace
   
   • The hunters traced the deer into the woods
   • the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him
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