transitive verb

1. to go out to kill or catch (game) for food or sport
2. to search eagerly or carefully for; try to find
3. 1. to pursue; chase; drive
   2. to hound; harry; persecute
4. 1. to go through (a woods, fields, etc.) in pursuit of game
   2. to search (a place) carefully
5. to use (dogs or horses) in chasing game

Etymology: ME hunten < OE huntian, prob. < base of hentan, to seize < ? IE *kend-, var. of *kent- > Goth (fra)hinthan, to seize: see hand

intransitive verb

1. to go out after game; take part in the chase
2. to search; seek
3. Bell Ringing to change the order of bells in a hunt

noun

1. the act of hunting; the chase
2. a group of people who hunt together
3. a district covered in hunting
4. a search
5. Bell Ringing a series of regularly varying sequences in ringing a group of from five to twelve bells