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witch hunt Definition

Hunt
(v. t.) To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals
Hunt
(v. t.) To search diligently after
Hunt
(v. t.) To drive
Hunt
(v. t.) To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
Hunt
(v. t.) To use or traverse in pursuit of game
Hunt
(v. i.) To follow the chase
Hunt
(v. i.) To seek
Hunt
(n.) The act or practice of chasing wild animals
Hunt
(n.) The game secured in the hunt.
Hunt
(n.) A pack of hounds.
Hunt
(n.) An association of huntsmen.
Hunt
(n.) A district of country hunted over.
Hunt-counter
(n.) A worthless dog that runs back on the scent
Hunt's-up
(n.) A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters
Still-hunt
(n.) A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover
Water witch
() The dabchick.
Water witch
() The stormy petrel.
Witch
(n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Witch
(n.) One who practices the black art, or magic
Witch
(n.) An ugly old woman
Witch
(n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction
Witch
(n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
Witch
(n.) The stormy petrel.
Witch
(v. t.) To bewitch
Witch-elm
(n.) See Wych-elm.
Witch-hazel
(n.) The wych-elm.
Witch-hazel
(n.) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.
Witch-tree
(n.) The witch-hazel.

witch hunt Bedeutung

witch-hunt searching out and harassing dissenters
hunt hunting the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
canned hunt a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections
deer hunting
deer hunt
hunting deer
treasure hunt a game in which players try to find hidden articles by using a series of clues
snipe hunt an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it, in the South a snipe hunt is practically a rite of passage
hunt
hunting
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
stalk stalking still hunt a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush
search
hunt hunting
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
witch hazel
wych hazel
lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant
hunt an instance of searching for something, the hunt for submarines
hunt
hunt club
an association of huntsmen who hunt for sport
witches' brew
witches' broth
witch's brew
a fearsome mixture, a witches' brew of gangsters and terrorists, mixing dope and alcohol creates a witches' brew
witch a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil
enchantress
witch
a female sorcerer or magician
hag
beldam beldame witch crone
an ugly evil-looking old woman
water witch
dowser
rhabdomancer
someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water
Wiccan
witch
a believer in Wicca
witch doctor someone who is believed to heal through magical powers
witch-hunter someone who identifies and punishes people for their opinions
Hunt
Leigh Hunt
James Henry Leigh Hunt
British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (-)
Hunt Richard Morris Hunt United States architect (-)
Hunt Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt
Englishman and Pre-Raphaelite painter (-)
Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (-)
Morgan Thomas Hunt Morgan United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (-)
dog grass couch grass
quackgrass
quack grass
quick grass
witch grass witchgrass Agropyron repens
European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes, naturalized in North America as a weed
witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass
old witch grass
tumble grass
Panicum capillare
North American grass with slender brushy panicles, often a weed on cultivated land
Hamamelidaceae
family Hamamelidaceae
witch-hazel family
comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera
witch hazel
witch hazel plant
wych hazel
wych hazel plant
any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis, bark yields an astringent lotion
Virginian witch hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
vernal witch hazel
Hamamelis vernalis
fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring
fothergilla
witch alder
any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color, grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains
witch elm
wych elm
Ulmus glabra
Eurasian elm often planted as a shade tree
witches' broom
witch broom
hexenbesen
staghead
an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
Ramsay Hunt syndrome syndrome resulting from infection by the herpes varicella zoster virus, characterized by vertigo and pain in the ears and facial nerve paralysis and sometimes hearing loss
hex
bewitch glamour
witch
enchant jinx
cast a spell over someone or something, put a hex on someone or something
still-hunt
ambush
hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing
hunt
run hunt down
track down
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals), Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland, The dogs are running deer, The Duke hunted in these woods
hunt search (an area) for prey, The King used to hunt these forests
hunt seek, search for, She hunted for her reading glasses but was unable to locate them
hunt oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent, The oscillator hunts about the correct frequency
hound
hunt
trace
pursue or chase relentlessly, The hunters traced the deer into the woods, the detectives hounded the suspect until they found him
hunt yaw back and forth about a flight path, the plane's nose yawed
hunt chase away, with as with force, They hunted the unwanted immigrants out of the neighborhood
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