 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
hunting
noun
1: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded
as a sport [syn: {hunt}]
2: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find
something or someone [syn: {search}, {hunt}]
3: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for
food or pelts [syn: {hunt}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hunt \Hunt\ (h[u^]nt), verb (used with an object) [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.
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. --Tennyson.
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.
Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
--Ps. cxl. 11.
3. To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to
hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
4. To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
He hunts a pack of dogs. --Addison.
5. To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the
woods, or the country.
6. (Change Ringing) To move or shift the order of (a bell) in
a regular course of changes.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hunting \Hunt"ing\, noun
The pursuit of game or of wild animals. --A. Smith.
{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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), a spider which hunts its prey,
instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
{Hunting watch}. See {Hunter}, 6.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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).
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