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 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.
 3. Mach. 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.
 4.  Change Ringing To shift up and down in order regularly.
 To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.]