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Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting. [R.] " Venatical pleasure." Howell.

The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic. [R.]

The art, act, or practice of hunting; the sports of the chase. "Beasts of venery and fishes." Sir T. Browne. I love hunting and venery. Chaucer.

very fine reddish brown wool, and long, pendent white hair on the breast and belly. It is hunted for its wool and flesh.

t, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view. -- View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover. -- View of frankpledge (Law), a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. Blackstone. -- View of premises (Law), the inspection by the jury of…

A ring surrounding a bugle or hunting horn.

One who kills a fox, except in hunting; also, the act of so killing a fox. [Written also vulpecide.]

sks descending from the upper jaw. It uses these in procuring food and in fighting. It is hunted for its oil, ivory, and skin. It feeds largely on mollusks. Called also morse.

A privilege which one has in his lands, by royal grant or prescription, of hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren, to the exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission. Spelman. They wend both warren and in waste. Piers Plowman.

y one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

The hunting of whales.

A huntsman who whips in the hounds; whipper-in.

A huntsman who keeps the hounds from wandering, and whips them in, if necessary, to the of chase.

Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward. "The whirlwind of hounds and hunters." Macaulay.

To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." Pennant. Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. Pope. That blast was winded by the king. Sir W. Scott.

an gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any one of certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identical with the great Danes.

A sportsman; a hunter. [The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for. Shak.

king; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood. Shak.