Hunt

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.

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.

To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The game secured in the hunt.

A pack of hounds.

An association of huntsmen.

A district of country hunted over.

an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"

the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts