To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift.
To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition. Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax.
To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.] That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham.
To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.] Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif.
To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
The habit of resorting to a place. [Obs.] The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.
Practice; skill. [Obs.] Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.
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