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Meaning of शिकार in English

  • To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for sport or exercise; as, to hunt a deer.
  • To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence.
  • To drive; to chase; -- with down, from, away, etc.; as, to hunt down a criminal; he was hunted from the parish.
  • To use or manage in the chase, as hounds.
  • To use or traverse in pursuit of game; as, he hunts the woods, or the country.
  • To follow the chase; to go out in pursuit of game; to course with hounds.
  • To seek; to pursue; to search; -- with for or after.
  • The act or practice of chasing wild animals; chase; pursuit; search.
  • The game secured in the hunt.
  • A pack of hounds.
  • An association of huntsmen.
  • A district of country hunted over.
  • of Hunt
  • The act of pillaging.
  • Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
  • That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
  • The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • To take booty; to gather spoil; to ravage; to take food by violence.
  • of Prey
  • Same as 1st Quarrel.
  • Quadrate; square.
  • A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
  • A heap of game killed.
  • The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
  • To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
  • A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
  • To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
  • To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
  • of Hunch
  • The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
  • A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.
  • The art or practice of hunting, or the qualification of a hunter.
  • A common European duck (Aythya ferina); -- called also goldhead, poker, and fresh-water, / red-headed, widgeon.
  • The American redhead, which is closely allied to the European poachard.
  • of Poach
  • The act of guarding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage.
  • The state of being under a guardian; care or protection enjoyed.

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