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H`AUNT, v.t.

1. To frequent; to resort to much or often, or to be much about; to visit customarily.

Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves.

2. To come to frequently; to intrude on; to trouble with frequent visits; to follow importunately.

You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house.

Those cares that haunt the court and town.

3. It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed and deserted houses.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

H`AUNT, v.i. To be much about; to visit or be present often.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my door.

H`AUNT, n. A place to which one frequently resorts. Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers. A den is the haunt of wild beasts.

1. The habit or custom of resorting to a place. [Not used.]

2. Custom; practice.
1913 Definition
Haunt (haunt)
v. t.(hänt; 277)
Haunt
[imp. *** p. p. Haunted] p. pr. *** vb. n. Haunting.] [F. hanter] of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire (see Ambition); o
  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.

  5. To persist in staying or visiting.

    I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.

  6. 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.

  7. The habit of resorting to a place.
    [Obs.]

    The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot.

  8. Practice; skill.
    [Obs.]

    Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer.

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