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Haunt   /hɔnt/   Listen
verb
Haunt  v. t.  (past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)  
1.
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. "You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house." "Those cares that haunt the court and town."
2.
To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. "Foul spirits haunt my resting place."
3.
To practice; to devote one's self to. (Obs.) "That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud... is cursed." "Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime."
4.
To accustom; to habituate. (Obs.) "Haunt thyself to pity."


Haunt  v. i.  To persist in staying or visiting. "I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors."


noun
Haunt  n.  
1.
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts. Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. Note: Often used figuratively. "The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure." "The feeble soul, a haunt of fears."
2.
The habit of resorting to a place. (Obs.) "The haunt you have got about the courts."
3.
Practice; skill. (Obs.) "Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt."





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"Haunt" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself willing to take out safely, at any time, one or two persons to the second or third railway station on one of the southern lines. But there had been no time to warn him the night before. His usual haunt seemed to be a low-class eating-house on the outskirts of the town. When Haldin got there the man was not to be found. He was not expected to turn up again till the evening. ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... and unconsciousness was the haunt of many strange figures, reflections perhaps from that true life led during sleep by the immortal man. Among these figures two awoke the strangest feelings of interest. One was an old man with long grey hair and beard, whose grey-blue eyes had an expression ...
— AE in the Irish Theosophist • George William Russell
... parties occasionally a very high "provincial celebrity." I know that when we beat our retreat from summer quarters at Glyndewi in 18—, the sighs of our late partners were positively heart-rending, and the blank faces of the deserted billiard-marker and solitary livery-stable 'groom' haunt me ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 • Various
... field of Kurukshetra. And performing their ablutions in the Saraswati, the Drisadwati and the Yamuna, they went from one forest to another, travelling in an westernly direction. And at length they saw before them the woods, Kamyaka, the favourite haunt of Munis, situated by a level and wild plain on the banks of the Saraswati. And in those woods, O Bharata, abounding in birds and deer, those heroes began to dwell, entertained and comforted by the Munis. And Vidura always ...
— Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 1 • Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
... my thoughts; day and night her beautiful eyes haunt me; her sweet voice is always ...
— The Room in the Dragon Volant • J. Sheridan Le Fanu


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