Haunt Haunting.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). 36.]
1.
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
Shak.
Those cares that haunt the court and town.
Swift.
2.
To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition.
Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
Fairfax.
3.
To practice; to devote one's self to.
[Obs.]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.
Chaucer.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
Ascham.
4.
To accustom; to habituate.
[Obs.]
Haunt thyself to pity.
Wyclif.
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Haunt, v. i.
To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Shak.
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Haunt, n.
1.
A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.
In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
Often used figuratively.
The household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure.
Keble.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.
Tennyson.
2.
The habit of resorting to a place.
[Obs.]
The haunt you have got about the courts.
Arbuthnot.
3.
Practice; skill.
[Obs.]
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.
Chaucer.
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