4. One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.
5. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting.
6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. — Hunter's screw (Mech.), a differential screw, so named from the inventor. See under Differential.
HUNTERIAN
Hun*te"ri*an, a.
Defn: Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
HUNTING
Hunt"ing, n.
Defn: 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 (below).
— Hunting cat (Zoöl.), the cheetah.
— Hunting cog (Mach.), 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 (Zoöl.), the hyena dog.
— Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp.
(pl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of
catching it in a web; a wolf spider.
— Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.
HUNTRESS
Hunt"ress, n.
Defn: A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.
Shak.