hunting

hunting
    n 1: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
         as a sport [syn: {hunt}, {hunting}]
    2: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something
       or someone [syn: {search}, {hunt}, {hunting}]
    3: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food
       or pelts [syn: {hunt}, {hunting}]
    

Hunt \Hunt\ (h[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hunted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Hunting}.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to
   follow, pursue, Goth. hin?an (in comp.) to seize. [root]36.
   Cf. {Hent}.]
   1. 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.
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            Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.       --Tennyson.
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   2. 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.
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            Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
                                                  --Ps. cxl. 11.
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   3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
      hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
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   4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
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            He hunts a pack of dogs.              --Addison.
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   5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
      woods, or the country.
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   6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
      a regular course of changes.
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Hunting \Hunt"ing\, n.
   The pursuit of game or of wild animals. --A. Smith.
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   {Happy hunting grounds}, the region to which, according to
      the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and
      hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and
      feasting. --Tylor.

   {Hunting box}. Same As {Hunting lodge} (below).

   {Hunting cat} (Zool.), the cheetah.

   {Hunting cog} (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared
      wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number
      in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting
      of the same pairs of teeth.

   {Hunting dog} (Zool.), the hyena dog.

   {Hunting ground}, a region or district abounding in game;
      esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American
      Indians in search of game.

   {Hunting horn}, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See
      {Horn}, and {Bulge}.

   {Hunting leopard} (Zool.), the cheetah.

   {Hunting lodge}, a temporary residence for the purpose of
      hunting.

   {Hunting seat}, a hunting lodge. --Gray.

   {Hunting shirt}, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of
      leather.

   {Hunting spider} (Zool.), a spider which hunts its prey,
      instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.

   {Hunting watch}. See {Hunter}, 6.
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Hunting
mentioned first in Gen. 10:9 in connection with Nimrod. Esau was
"a cunning hunter" (Gen. 25:27). Hunting was practised by the
Hebrews after their settlement in the "Land of Promise" (Lev.
17:15; Prov. 12:27). The lion and other ravenous beasts were
found in Palestine (1 Sam. 17:34; 2 Sam. 23:20; 1 Kings 13:24;
Ezek. 19:3-8), and it must have been necessary to hunt and
destroy them. Various snares and gins were used in hunting (Ps.
91:3; Amos 3:5; 2 Sam. 23:20).

  War is referred to under the idea of hunting (Jer. 16:16;
Ezek. 32:30).
    

HUNTING. The act of pursuing and taking wild animals; the chase.
     2. The chase gives a kind of title by occupancy, by which the hunter 
acquires a right or property in the game which he captures. In the United 
States, the right of hunting is universal, and limited only so far as to 
exclude hunters from committing injuries to private property or to the 
public; as, by shooting on public roads. Vide Feroe naturae; Occupancy. 
    

72 Moby Thesaurus words for "hunting":
      analog process, angling, behavior pattern, chase, chevy, chivy,
      coursing, cynegetic, cynegetics, digital process, dogging,
      domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, falconry, feeling,
      fishing, follow, follow-up, following, forage, fox hunting, frisk,
      gunning, halieutic, hawking, house-search, hue and cry, hunt,
      in full cry, in hot pursuit, in pursuit, input oscillation, offset,
      oscillatory behavior, overcorrection of error, overshoot,
      perquisition, piscatorial, piscatory, posse, probe, process,
      prosecution, pursuance, pursuant, pursuing, pursuit, quest,
      questing, ransacking, rummage, search, search party,
      search warrant, search-and-destroy operation, searching, seeking,
      self-excitation, shadowing, shikar, shooting, sport, sporting,
      stalk, stalking, still hunt, tracking, tracking down, trailing,
      turning over, venery