adv. phr. [A prep.1 + HUNT.] On the hunt.

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1875.  Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 272. Follow you quick, with a whizz, as the hounds a-hunt with the huntsman.

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1880.  J. B. Brown, in Gd. Wds., Dec., 821. A priest of the Inquisition ahunt for blood.

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