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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.

A dog that scents game, or is trained to the chase; a hunting dog. Shak.

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.…

To play the game of hurling. See Hurling.

A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.

ch, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible of alcoholic fermentation. Gamgee.

nd performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

Pertaining to the ilium and femur; as, iliofemoral ligaments.

An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, either two doubles, or the four dice alike.

t, maize or Indian corn. -- Indian yellow. (a) An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium. (b) See Euxanthin.

To inspire with a foolish and extravagant passion; as, to be infatuated with gaming. The people are . . . infatuated with the notion. Addison.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the inguen or groin; as, an inguinal canal or ligament; inguinal hernia. Inguinal ring. See Abdominal ring, under Abdominal.

infuse new life or spirit into; to animate; to encourage; to invigorate. The courage of Agamemnon is inspirited by the love of empire and ambition. Pope.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

g or carried on between colleges or universities; as, intercollegiate relations, rivalry, games, etc.

Between columns or pillars; as, the intercolumnar fibers of Poupart's ligament; an intercolumnar statue.

An interhyal ligament or cartilage.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.