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Word Meanings - HUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting

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The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge . -- Hunting cat , the cheetah. -- Hunting cog , a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. -- Hunting dog , the hyena dog. -- Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. , the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard , the cheetah. -- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider , a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.

Related words: (words related to HUNTING)

  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • AFTER
    To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • AMERICANIZATION
    The process of Americanizing.
  • ACCORDANCY
    Accordance. Paley.
  • ACCORDANTLY
    In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
  • ACCORDER
    One who accords, assents, or concedes.
  • HUNT
    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
  • FEAST
    festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  • ACCORDINGLY
    1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
  • SMITHSONIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.
  • ACCORDING
    Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious. "This according voice of national wisdom." Burke. "Mind and soul according well." Tennyson. According to him, every person was to be bought. Macaulay. Our zeal should be according to knowledge. Sprat.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • HUNT-COUNTER
    A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. Shak.
  • AMERICAN
    1. Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians. 2. Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party , a party, about 1854,
  • AMERICANISM
    1. Attachment to the United States. 2. A custom peculiar to the United States or to America; an American characteristic or idea. 3. A word or phrase peculiar to the United States.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • PHOTIC REGION
    The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
  • UNBELIEF
    1. The withholding of belief; doubt; incredulity; skepticism. 2. Disbelief; especially, disbelief of divine revelation, or in a divine providence or scheme of redemption. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain. Cowper. Syn. --
  • CRAFTER
    a creator of great skill in the manual arts. Syn. -- craftsman.
  • BON-ACCORD
    Good will; good fellowship; agreement.

 

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