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Hunting

noun

The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport. Synonym: hunt.

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone. Synonyms: hunt, search.

The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts. Synonym: hunt.

Hunt

verb

(past & past part. hunted; pres. part. hunting)

Pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals). Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down. "The dogs are running deer" , "The Duke hunted in these woods"

Pursue or chase relentlessly. Synonyms: hound, trace. "The detectives hounded the suspect until they found him"

Chase away, with as with force.

Yaw back and forth about a flight path.

Oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent.

Seek, search for.

Search (an area) for prey.

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"Hunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... introduced later. A term at school was followed by a trip on the ocean, and then one into the jungles of the Dark Continent in search of Mr. Rover, who had mysteriously disappeared. Then the Rover boys went out west and to the great lakes, and later spent a fine time hunting in the mountains. They likewise spent some time in camp with their fellow cadets, and during the summer vacation took a long trip on land and sea. Then they returned home, and during another vacation sailed down the Ohio River in a houseboat, spent some time on the plains, ...

— The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle - or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. • Edward Stratemeyer (AKA Arthur M. Winfield)

... Pedro. "Ah! my good friend, that is because you are new to this wretched country. Are you not aware, then, that the master keeps quite a pack of bloodhounds for the purpose of hunting runaway slaves, and that these bloodhounds are turned loose every night to scour the estate? They have been trained to watch over us and prevent our escape. If I should happen to encounter one to-night, I shall be ...

— The Voyage of the Aurora • Harry Collingwood

... violin, passed among the crowd with a supply of bottles of balm, while the professor was expatiating in an eloquent manner upon its merits. Among the crowd his attention was drawn to a roughly dressed man, in hunting costume, wearing a sombrero with a broad brim. His face was dark and his expression sinister. His eyes were very black and keen. He looked like a Spaniard, and the thought came to Waiter that he would make an ideal highway-man. He was leaning carelessly against the fence that separated ...

— Walter Sherwood's Probation • Horatio Alger

... the old peacock eating the strawberries in the garden; and the wild neglected nooks, where as a child she had so often played and dreamed. Both loved the country, but they loved it for different reasons. He was especially fond of hunting, a consequence of which was that he left his wife much alone. And when he was at home his society may not always have been very entertaining, for what liveliness he had seems to have been rather in his legs than in his brain. Writing to her ...

— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks

... than Laplace's, let us see what the nature of the photographic revelations is. The vast celestial maelstrom discovered by Lord Rosse in the "Hunting Dogs'' may be taken as the leading type of the spiral nebul, although there are less conspicuous objects of the kind which, perhaps, better illustrate some of their peculiarities. Lord Rosse's nebula ...

— Curiosities of the Sky • Garrett Serviss

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