Hunt v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.]
 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.
 hunted
      adj : reflecting the fear or terror of one who is hunted; "the
            hopeless hunted look on the prisoner's face"; "a
            glitter of apprehension in her hunted eyes"