hunt

• <
• ^
• >
• v

The objective of the game was to shoot other players (repeatedly). You could also stab them, or even bomb them using various conveniently-situated explosive packs, grenades, mines and the like. The game's extreme realism dictated that walls could be destroyed (however, they would grow back; so much for realism in computer games). Team play was also possible.

To this day, the memory of hunt lives on: it is supplied with some Linux distributions, along with a script run by init to delete the sockets from /tmp that huntd (the game's daemon) would leave behind.

Hunt (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Hunting.] [AS. huntian to hunt; cf. hentan to follow, pursue, Goth. hin&?;an (in comp.) to seize. √36. Cf. Hent.]

1.

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.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
Tennyson.

2.

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.

Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
Ps. cxl. 11.

3.

To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.

4.

To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.

He hunts a pack of dogs.
Addison.

5.

To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.

© Webster 1913

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.

To hunt counter, to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. [Obs.] Shak.

© Webster 1913

Hunt, n.

1.

The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.

The hunt is up; the morn is bright and gray.
Shak.

2.

The game secured in the hunt. [Obs.] Shak.

3.

A pack of hounds. [Obs.]

4.

An association of huntsmen.

5.

A district of country hunted over.

Every landowner within the hunt.
London Field.

© Webster 1913

Hunt, v. i.

1. (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.

2. (Change Ringing)

To shift up and down in order regularly.

© Webster 1913

Hunt, v. t. (Change Ringing)

To move or shift the order of (a bell) in a regular course of changes.

© Webster 1913