Word Meanings - DEERSTALKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares.

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• HUNT
  1. 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. 2. To search
• HUNT-COUNTER
  A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. Shak.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• HUNTRESS
  A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana. Shak.
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• HUNT'S-UP
  A tune played on the horn very early in the morning to call out the hunters; hence, any arousing sound or call. Shak. Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head. Drayton.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• HUNTE
  A hunter. Chaucer.
• STEALTHINESS
  The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
• HUNTER
  A kind of spider. See Hunting spider, under Hunting. 6. A hunting watch, or one of which the crystal is protected by a metallic cover. Hunter's room, the lunation after the harvest moon. -- Hunter's screw , a differential screw, so named from the
• STEALING
  1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• HUNTING
  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
• STEALTHILY
  In a stealthy manner.
• STEALTHY
  Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.
• HUNTSMANSHIP
  The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter. Donne.
• STEAL
  A handle; a stale, or stele. And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. Spenser.
• HUNTERIAN
  Discovered or described by John Hunter, an English surgeon; as, the Hunterian chancre. See Chancre.
• HUNTSMAN
  1. One who hunts, or who practices hunting. 2. The person whose office it is to manage the chase or to look after the hounds. L'Estrange. Huntsman's cup , the sidesaddle flower, or common American pitcher plant .
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• SHUNT WINDING
  A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` , a.
• STILL-HUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
• TUFTHUNTING
  The practice of seeking after, and hanging on, noblemen, or persons of quality, especially in English universities.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• FOX-HUNTING
  Pertaining to or engaged in the hunting of foxes; fond of hunting foxes.
• ECTOSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
• SHUNT
  To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. (more info) schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope, Icel. skunda to hasten. 1. To shun; to move from. 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. Ash. 3. To turn off
• HEAD-HUNTER
  A member of any tribe or race of savages who have the custom of decapitating human beings and preserving their heads as trophies. The Dyaks of Borneo are the most noted head-hunters. -- Head"-hunt`ing, n.
• SHUNTING
  Switching; as, shunting engine, yard, etc. Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.