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To go; to direct one's course. [Obs.] Ye might have busked you to Huntly banks. Skelton.

A strong, protecting covering for the foot, coming some distance up the leg. The hunted red deer's undressed hide Their hairy buskins well supplied. Sir W. Scott.

A cottage or small house; a hut. Swift. A hunting cabin in the west. E. Everett.

A single hut or shelter; as, a hunter's camp.

carried before the mayors of some cities. -- Cap money, money collected in a cap for the huntsman at the death of the fox. -- Cap paper. (a) A kind of writing paper including flat cap, foolsap, and legal cap. (b) A coarse wrapping paper used for making caps to hold commodities. Cap rock (Mining), The layer of rock ne…

t off. (a) To discard or reject; to drive away; to put off; to free one's self from. (b) (Hunting) To leave behind, as dogs; also, to set loose, or free, as dogs. Crabb. (c) (Naut.) To untie, throw off, or let go, as a rope. -- To cast off copy, (Print.), to estimate how much printed matter a given amount of copy will…

ich feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds. -- Caterpillar hunter (Zoöl.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabidæ which feed habitually upon caterpillars.

ther forming a distinct ulcer or not; -- called also hard chancre, indurated chancre, and Hunterian chancre. Soft chancre. A chancroid. See Chancroid.

Capable of being chased; fit for hunting. Gower.

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

A species of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. R. Hunt.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.

One of a breed of small or medium-sized spaniels kept for hunting or retrieving game or for household pets. They usually weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but…

Full of thought; thoughtful. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.