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单词 to hunt change
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to hunt (the) change
P3. Hunting. to hunt (the) change: (of hounds) to pick up the scent of an animal, esp. a deer, other than the one being hunted; to follow a false scent; also in figurative contexts (now historical and rare).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > follow wrong scent
to hunt (the) changea1425
to run riot1594
hunt-counter1600
to run at check1667
riot1781
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xiii. 67 Þei knowe wele þat þei shull not hunt þe chaunge; and þei ben not so wyse forto disseuer þe hert fro þe chaunge, for þei abyde styll and restyffe.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxviii. 103 If the houndes shoulde hunte chaunge, or scatter and stray from the right wayes, then may they returne to the laft marke, and so seeke againe the first chace.
a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd i. vi. 138 in Wks. (1640) III Rob. And hunted yee at force? Mar. In a full cry. Io. And never hunted change ! View more context for this quotation
1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) i. 16 When the Hounds..take fresh scent, hunting another Chase,..,we say, they Hunt Change.
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Buck-Hunting To have a care of Hunting Counter or Change, because of the plenty of Fallow Deer that use to come more directly upon the Hounds, than the red Deer doth.
1756 Ess. on Times 53 See the people opening in full cry, and hunting the change, till they had run their resentment out of breath, or evaporated it upon that pitiful object.
1829 G. Griffin Collegians I. xvii. 140 How often at evening has he..excited my young ambition with tales of..hunting mute, hunting change, and hunting counter!
1945 Shakespeare Assoc. Bull. 20 72 Hounds were said to ‘hunt change’..when they left the trail of the hunted deer for a new one.
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