- 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.]- 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.]- To drive; to chase; -- with down from away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.- To use or manage in the chase, as hounds. "He hunts a pack of dogs." [Addison.]- To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.- [Change Ringing] To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes. Etymology: AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin�anin comp.) to seize. √36. Cf. Hent