Verb

(en verb)

To chase down prey and (usually) kill it.

* Bible, Genesis xxvii. 5

Esau went to the field to hunt for venison.

* Tennyson

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.

* 2010 , Backyard deer hunting: converting deer to dinner for pennies per pound (ISBN 1449084354), page 10:

State Wildlife Management Areas often offer licensed hunters the opportunity to hunt deer on public lands.

To try to find something; search.

* (William Shakespeare)

He after honour hunts , I after love.

* , chapter=1

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

* 2004 , Prill Boyle, Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women (ISBN 1578601541), page 119:

My idea of retirement was to hunt seashells, play golf, and do a lot of walking.

* 2011 , Ann Major, Nobody's Child (ISBN 1459271939):

What kind of woman came to an island and stayed there through a violent storm and then got up the next morning to hunt seashells? She had fine, delicate features with high cheekbones and the greenest eyes he'd ever seen.

The police are hunting for evidence.

To drive; to chase; with down'', ''from'', ''away , etc.

to hunt down a criminal

He was hunted from the parish.

To use or manage (dogs, horses, etc.) in hunting.

* Addison

He hunts a pack of dogs.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game.

He hunts the woods, or the country.

Verb

(creat)

To put into existence.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.

To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

, volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",

To be creative, imaginative.

To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.

To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.

To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).