Haunt /(hänt; 277)/

imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting

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.

   Those cares that haunt the court and town.

2. To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; -- said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died.

   Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obs.]

   That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed.

   Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.

4. To accustom; to habituate. [Obs.]

   Haunt thyself to pity.

1. To persist in staying or visiting.

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

1. A place to which one frequently resorts; as, drinking saloons are the haunts of tipplers; a den is the haunt of wild beasts.

   The household nook, The haunt of all affections pure.

   The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.

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

   The haunt you have got about the courts.

3. Practice; skill. [Obs.]

   Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.