haunt
n. பயிலிடம், ஊடாட்டப்பகுதி, நடமாட்டப்பகுதி, விலங்குகள் வழக்கமாகச் சென்று தீனி கொள்ளும் இடம், குற்றவாளிகள் பதுங்கிடம், (வி.) அடிக்கடி செல், சென்று ஊடாடு, வழக்கமாக நடமாடு, பயில், பழகி ஊடாடு, விரும்பிக் கலந்து உறவாடு, வழக்கமாகத் தங்கியிரு, ஓயாது வந்து தலையிடு, சுற்றிச்சுற்றி வா, பேய்வகையில் தங்கியிரு, வட்டமிடு, எண்ணங்கள் வகையில் அடிக்கடி வந்து தோன்று, ஓயாது நினைவில் ஊடாடு.
Haunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Haunting.] Etym: [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). sq. root36.] 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. 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, v. i. Defn: To persist in staying or visiting. I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak. 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.