n. 常到的地方, 生息地

vt. 常到, 出没于, 萦绕于

vi. 出没, 作祟

[法] 常去的地方, 巢穴

Haunt \Haunt\, 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.

Note: In Old English the place occupied by any one as a
dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.

Note: Often used figuratively.

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.


Haunt \Haunt\ (h[aum]nt; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Haunted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Haunting}.] [F. hanter; of uncertain origin,
perh. from an assumed LL. ambitare to go about, fr. L. ambire
(see {Ambition}); or cf. Icel. heimta to demand, regain, akin
to heim home (see {Home}). [root]36.]
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.


Haunt \Haunt\, v. i.
To persist in staying or visiting.

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