Verb

(lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.

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(label) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

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*Bible, (w) xi. 16

*:Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.

*1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :

*:“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.

(lb) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

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*1880 , , :

*:But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.

*1886 , Constantine Popoff, translation of (Leo Tolstoy)'s :

*:I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.

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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

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*:Ryght so he sought towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes

(lb) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

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*:Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.

*1726 (tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33

*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains

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.

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, 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.