Dictionary entry

Hunt (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Hunt, v. i. 1. To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.

Esau went to the field to hunt for venison. Gen. xxvii. 5.

2. To seek; to pursue; to search; — with for or after.

He after honor hunts, I after love. Shak.

To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. Shak.