n. & v. See Chant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A street seller of ballads and other broadsides. [ Slang, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deceitful, tricky dealer or horse jockey. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a horse chaunter; he's a leg now. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The flute of a bagpipe. See Chanter, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Chantry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To leave; to quit; to cease to haunt. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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). √36. ] 1. To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those cares that haunt the court and town. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Foul spirits haunt my resting place. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To practice; to devote one's self to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud . . . is cursed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To accustom; to habituate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Haunt thyself to pity. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. [ 1913 Webster ]

I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ] The household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ] The feeble soul, a haunt of fears. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The habit of resorting to a place. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The haunt you have got about the courts. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Practice; skill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inhabited by, or subject to the visits of, apparitions; frequented by a ghost. [ 1913 Webster ]

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, haunts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]