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  • English Word Hunt Definition A district of country hunted over.
  • English Word Hunt's-up Definition A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call.
  • English Word Hunt-counter Definition A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer.
  • English Word Hunte Definition A hunter.
  • English Word Hunted Definition of Hunt
  • English Word Hunter Definition One who hunts wild animals either for sport or for food; a huntsman.
  • English Word Hunter Definition A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog.
  • English Word Hunter Definition A horse used in the chase; especially, a thoroughbred, bred and trained for hunting.
  • English Word Hunter Definition One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter.
  • English Word Hunter Definition A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
  • English Word Hunter Definition A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover.
  • English Word Hunterian Definition Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
  • English Word Hunting Definition of Hunt
  • English Word Hunting Definition The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
  • English Word Huntress Definition A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.
  • English Word Huntsman Definition One who hunts, or who practices hunting.
  • English Word Huntsman Definition The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds.
  • English Word Huntsmanship Definition The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
  • English Word Huntsmen Definition of Huntsman
  • English Word Hurden Definition A coarse kind of linen; -- called also harden.
  • English Word Hurdle Definition A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as revetments, and for other purposes.
  • English Word Hurdle Definition In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution.
  • English Word Hurdle Definition An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses leap in a race.
  • English Word Hurdle Definition To hedge, cover, make, or inclose with hurdles.
  • English Word Hurdleed Definition of Hurdle
  • English Word Hurdleing Definition of Hurdle
  • English Word Hurdlework Definition Work after manner of a hurdle.
  • English Word Hurds Definition The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
  • English Word Hurdy-gurdy Definition A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bow, two of the strings being tuned as drones, while two or more, tuned in unison, are modulated by keys.
  • English Word Hurdy-gurdy Definition In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.