Still-hunt: alternatives and connections

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen…

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

To cover with a cap, or as with a cap; to provide with a cap or cover; to cover the top or end of; to place a cap upon the proper part…

An old game; (a) The game of tipcat and the implement with which it is played. See Tipcat. (c) A game of ball, called, according to th…

Vehement pursuit for the purpose of killing or capturing, as of an enemy, or game; an earnest seeking after any object greatly desired…

Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit; "impossible to escape the dogging fears"

Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.

That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short w…

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.

A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.

To become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet…

Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, phusical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency…

Having the mind closely directed to or bent on an object; sedulous; eager in pursuit of an object; -- formerly with to, but now with o…