a-hunt

Definition of a-hunt in English English dictionary
Belvoir Hunt: A fox hunt based at Belvoir, Leicestershire
Easter egg hunt: A common festive activity held at Easter, where Easter eggs are hidden outdoors (or indoors if in bad weather) for children to run around and find; this may also be a contest to see who can collect the most eggs
I was a little chunky anyway, and slow, so slow that I was once the only kid at an Easter egg hunt who didn’t get a single egg, not because I couldn’t find them but because I couldn’t get to them fast enough. — My Life by Bill Clinton.
Hunt: An English occupational surname for a hunter (for game, birds etc)
Wild Hunt: A ghostly hunt that rides across the sky, common to English German and Scandinavian folklore
The night grew lighter as we welcomed the Aelfkin and Frey to join us, the Mothers we honoured and speeches made on Woden and the Wild Hunt.
dog in the hunt: Something to gain depending on the outcome; a position for which to campaign or cheer
A national political party is unlikely to feel it has a particular dog in the hunt for a typical small town mayoral race; in many cases the local candidates do not even campaign with a party affiliation.
dog in the hunt: Literally, ownership of one of several canines participating in the group pursuit of game or fowl
egg hunt: An Easter festival, where young children "hunt" for Easter eggs
egg-hunt: Attributive form of egg hunt
egg-hunt participant.
hunt: To ride at a hunt
Did you hunt that pony last week?.
hunt: An organization devoted to hunting, or the people belonging to such an organization (capitalized if the name of a specific organization)
hunt: To chase down prey and (usually) kill it
Her uncle is out deer hunting, now that it is open season.
hunt: A hunting expedition
hunt: The act of hunting
hunt: To try to find something; search
The little girl was hunting for shells on the beach.
hunt and peck: To use the hunt-and-peck typing technique
hunt and peck: The hunt-and-peck typing technique
hunt down: To hunt something and capture or kill it
hunt down: To find with difficulty
I managed to hunt down a copy of the magazine.
hunt saboteur: A person who does not approve of hunting and tries to sabotage it; used especially in reference to fox hunting
hunt-and-peck: Describing a method of typing used by a person unfamiliar with the layout of a keyboard or keypad in which the person has to search for the keys to be pressed or struck one by one and uses one or both index fingers to operate the keys; also used to describe a typist who uses this technique
proverbs hunt in pairs: Alternative form of proverbs run in pairs
scavenger hunt: A game in which individuals or teams seek to find a number of specific items, or perform tasks, as given in a list
snipe hunt: To participate, as the gullible victim, in a snipe hunt
snipe hunt: A prank in which a gullible victim is sent off on a fruitless search for a nonexistent item
treasure hunt: A game in which people have to find hidden objects or places, with the help of clues
treasure hunt: A search for buried treasure
witch-hunt: A search witches, persons believed to be using sorcery or harmful magic, in order to persecute and typically kill them
witch-hunt: A public smear-campaign against an individual
witch-hunt: An attempt to find and publicly punish a group of people perceived as a threat, usually on ideological or political grounds
you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: You can't have it both ways
hunt: {v} to chase, pursue, search, seck, manage
hunt: {n} a chase, pursuit, sport, pack of hounds
easter egg hunt: (Oyunlar) A game during which decorated eggs, real hard-boiled ones or artificial, filled with or made of chocolate candies, of various sizes, are hidden in various places for children to find
egg hunt: (Easter egg hunt) A game during which decorated eggs, real hard-boiled ones or artificial, filled with or made of chocolate candies, of various sizes, are hidden in various places for children to find
A hunt: chase
George Hunt Pendleton: born July 29, 1825, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. died Nov. 24, 1889, Brussels, Belg. U.S. politician. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1857 to 1865 and was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for vice president (with George B. McClellan) in 1864. A member of the Greenback movement, he advocated the Ohio Idea for redeeming American Civil War bonds. From 1879 to 1885 he served in the U.S. Senate, where he sponsored the Pendleton Civil Service Act. He served as minister to Germany from 1885 to 1889
H L Hunt: born Feb. 17, 1889, Ramsey, Ill., U.S. died Nov. 29, 1974, Dallas, Texas U.S. oilman. Hunt purchased a tract of land in eastern Texas in 1930 that became one of the richest oilfields in the U.S. He continued his shrewd investments through his Hunt Oil Co. (founded 1936), which grew into the largest independent oil and gas producer in the country. In the 1960s his company exploited vast oil deposits in Libya. He also invested in publishing, cosmetics, pecan farming, and health food. He promoted his ultraconservative views on his own radio programs and newspaper column in the 1950s. Two of his sons, N. Bunker and W. Herbert, tried unsuccessfully to corner the world silver market in 1980, causing its near collapse
Haroldson Lafayette Hunt: born Feb. 17, 1889, Ramsey, Ill., U.S. died Nov. 29, 1974, Dallas, Texas U.S. oilman. Hunt purchased a tract of land in eastern Texas in 1930 that became one of the richest oilfields in the U.S. He continued his shrewd investments through his Hunt Oil Co. (founded 1936), which grew into the largest independent oil and gas producer in the country. In the 1960s his company exploited vast oil deposits in Libya. He also invested in publishing, cosmetics, pecan farming, and health food. He promoted his ultraconservative views on his own radio programs and newspaper column in the 1950s. Two of his sons, N. Bunker and W. Herbert, tried unsuccessfully to corner the world silver market in 1980, causing its near collapse
Helen Hunt: {i} (born 1963) USA film and television actress (star of the TV series "Mad About You" and the film "As Good As It Gets")
R. Timothy Hunt: born Feb. 19, 1943, Neston, Cheshire, Eng. British scientist. After receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1968, he conducted research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and in 1990 joined the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now Cancer Research UK) in London. In the early 1980s, using sea urchins, he discovered cyclins, proteins that play a key role in regulating different phases of the cell cycle. His work led to the discovery of cyclins in humans and proved important in the field of tumour diagnostics. Hunt shared a Nobel Prize with Leland H. Hartwell and Sir Paul M. Nurse in 2001
Richard Morris Hunt: born Oct. 31, 1827, Brattleboro, Vt., U.S. died July 31, 1895, Rewport, R.I. U.S. architect. He studied in Europe from 1843 to 1854, becoming the first U.S. architecture student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to the U.S. to establish the Beaux-Arts style there. His work was eclectic, ranging from ornate early French Renaissance to monumental Classicism to a picturesque villa style. He worked on the extension of the U.S. Capitol and designed the Tribune building in New York City (1873; since destroyed) and the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1900-02), also in New York. Among the mansions he designed for the new commercial aristocracy is the Breakers in Newport, R.I. (1892-95), which was created in an opulent Renaissance style for the Vanderbilts. Hunt was a founder of the American Institute of Architects
Thomas Hunt Morgan: born Sept. 25, 1866, Lexington, Ky., U.S. died Dec. 4, 1945, Pasadena, Calif. U.S. zoologist and geneticist. He received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. As a professor at Columbia University (1904-28) and California Institute of Technology (1928-45), he conducted important research on heredity. Like many of his contemporaries, Morgan found Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection implausible because it could not be tested experimentally, and he objected to Mendelian and chromosome theories, arguing that no single chromosome could carry specific hereditary traits. His opinion changed as a result of his studies of Drosophila. He developed the hypothesis of sex-linked traits. He adopted the term gene and concluded that genes were possibly arranged in a linear fashion on chromosomes. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933. See also Calvin Blackman Bridges
William Holman Hunt: a British painter who, with Millais and Rossetti, started the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 (1827-1910). born April 2, 1827, London, Eng. died Sept. 7, 1910, London British painter and cofounder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He attended the Royal Academy schools and achieved his first public success with The Light of the World (1854). His paintings are characterized by hard colour, minute detail, and an emphasis on moral or social symbolism; their moral earnestness made them extemely popular in Victorian England. He spent two years in Syria and Palestine painting biblical scenes, such as The Scapegoat (1855), depicting the outcast animal on the shores of the Dead Sea. His autobiographical Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905) is the basic sourcebook of the movement
boar hunt: {i} hunt for wild hog or pig
canned hunt: a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections
drag hunt: {i} (British) hunt using hounds to follow an artificial scent trail
fox hunt: sport of hunting fox on horseback with the aid of hounds; participate in a fox hunt
hunt: 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
hunt: United States architect (1827-1895)
hunt: 1 Of an aircraft, rocket, etc : to weave about its flightpath, as if seeking a new direction of another angle of attack, specifically, to yaw back and forth
hunt: yaw back and forth about a flight path; "the plane's nose yawed"
hunt: search (an area) for prey; "The King used to hunt these forests"
hunt: {f} chase and capture game animals; search, look for; follow after, pursue
hunt: To seek; to pursue; to search; with for or after
hunt: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
hunt: The game secured in the hunt
hunt: If you hunt for something or someone, you try to find them by searching carefully or thoroughly. A forensic team was hunting for clues = search Hunt is also a noun. The couple had helped in the hunt for the toddlers. = search
hunt: If a team or competitor is in the hunt for something, they still have a chance of winning it. We're still in the hunt for the League title and we want to go all the way in the Cup. see also hunting, witch-hunt. British writer and editor of the Examiner (1806-1821). He is known for his essays defending romanticism. American architect who supervised an addition to the Louvre in Paris and designed an extension of the U.S. Capitol (1855) as well as the base of the Statue of Liberty. British painter who with Rossetti and Millais founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His works include The Light of the World (1854) and The Scapegoat (1856). American painter who brought the painting of the French Barbizon school to the attention of American artists and collectors. Hunt Haroldson Lafayette Hunt R. Timothy Hunt Richard Morris Hunt William Holman Morgan Thomas Hunt Pendleton George Hunt
hunt: as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish
hunt: oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent; "The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency"
hunt: seek, search for; "She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them"
hunt: chase away, with as with force; "They hunted the the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood"
hunt: To use or manage in the chase, as hounds
hunt: A district of country hunted over
hunt: To drive; to chase; with down, from, away, etc
hunt: In Britain, when people hunt, they ride horses over fields with dogs called hounds and try to catch and kill foxes, as a sport. She liked to hunt as often as she could. Hunt is also a noun. The hunt was held on land owned by the Duke of Marlborough
hunt: In Britain, a hunt is a group of people who meet regularly to hunt foxes
hunt: an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
hunt: To shift up and down in order regularly
hunt: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
hunt: Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
hunt: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
hunt: To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds
hunt: the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
hunt: 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
hunt: To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change of load, an arc-lamp clutch mechanism which moves rapidly up and down with variations of current, or the like; also, to seesaw, as a pair of alternators working in parallel
hunt: To chase down prey and (usually) kill it. When the prey is a fish, its not called hunting, but fishing
hunt: To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes
hunt: {i} act of chasing and capturing game animals
hunt: If you hunt a criminal or an enemy, you search for them in order to catch or harm them. Detectives have been hunting him for seven months Hunt is also a noun. Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found
hunt: The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search
hunt: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) United States architect (1827-1895) Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (1827-1910) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
hunt: To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country
hunt: the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts an instance of searching for something; "the hunt for submarines"
hunt: When people or animals hunt, they chase and kill wild animals for food or as a sport. As a child I learned to hunt and fish He got up at four and set out on foot to hunt black grouse. Hunt is also a noun. He set off for a nineteen-day moose hunt in Nova Scotia
hunt: British writer who defended the romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
hunt: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
hunt: pursue or chase relentlessly; "The hunters traced the deer into the woods"; "the detectives hounded the suspect until they found the him"
hunt: A pack of hounds
hunt: to chase and kill animals for food
hunt: An association of huntsmen
hunt: An action that a vampire can take to restore lost, spent, or burned blood counters
hunt: an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
hunt down: If you hunt down a criminal or an enemy, you find them after searching for them. Last December they hunted down and killed one of the gangsters It took her four months to hunt him down
hunt down: pursue and capture, pursue and kill, seek and find, track down
hunt down: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods"
hunt for: look for, search for, rummage for
hunt out: drive away, expel
hunt out: If you hunt out something that is hidden or difficult to find, you search for it and eventually find it. I'll try and hunt out the information you need American consumers are accustomed to hunting out bargains. = dig out
hunt saboteur: A hunt saboteur is someone who tries to stop a hunt from taking place or being successful because they believe it is cruel to the animal being hunted. member of a group that tries to stop people from hunting foxes
hunt up: search for, look for
ramsay hunt syndrome: syndrome resulting from infection by the herpes varicella zoster virus; characterized by vertigo and pain in the ears and facial nerve paralysis and sometimes hearing loss
scavenger hunt: A game in which individuals or teams try to locate and bring back miscellaneous items on a list
snipe hunt: an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it; "in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage
still-hunt: hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing
treasure hunt: a game in which players try to find hidden articles by using a series of clues
treasure hunt: {i} game in which the players try to find hidden items or hidden prize by using a series of clues
treasure hunt: A game in which the players attempt to find hidden articles by means of a series of clues. a game in which you have to find something that has been hidden by answering questions that are left in different places
witch hunt: manhunt against opposers
witch-hunt: searching out and harassing dissenters
witch-hunt: disapproval A witch-hunt is an attempt to find and punish a particular group of people who are being blamed for something, often simply because of their opinions and not because they have actually done anything wrong. an attempt to find and punish people in a society or organization whose opinions are regarded as wrong or dangerous - used to show disapproval