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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (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.

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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