Haunt — Defs

01 v. t. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.

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.” — 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; -- 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.” — 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.

02 v. i. To persist in staying or visiting.

1.
To persist in staying or visiting.
“I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.” — Shak.

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

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.” — Keble.

“The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.” — Tennyson.
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.