n. The pursuit of game; the art or practice of pursuing wild animals in any way for the purpose of capturing or killing them; the chase, either as a source of livelihood or as a recreation or field sport; absolutely, in England, fox-hunting; coursing.n. In change-ringing, the operation of changing the order in which any bell in a peal is rung. See hunt, v. i., 3.n. An arrangement in the number of teeth of gears in contact such that the same teeth come into touch with each other only after a number of revolutions.