Any one of numerous species of limicoline game birds of the family Scolopacidæ, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
A fool; a blockhead.
To shoot or hunt snipe.
To shoot at detached men of an enemy’s forces at long range, esp. when not in action; - often with at.
To shoot at (detached men of an enemy’s force) at long range, esp. when not in action.
To nose (a log) to make it drag or slip easily in skidding.
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.
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.
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.
To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.
To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
To seek; to pursue; to search; - with for or after.
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.
To shift up and down in order regularly.
The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
The game secured in the hunt.
A pack of hounds.
An association of huntsmen.
A district of country hunted over.
