hauntverb/hɔːnt/

• 1

  To inhabit or to visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).

  • A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
  • You wrong me Sir,thus ſtill to haunt my houſe.
• 2

  To make uneasy, restless.

  • The memory of his past failures haunted him.
  • The murder of Déagol haunted Gollum, and he had made up a defence.
• 3

  To stalk; to follow.

  • The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
  • Ex's and the oh-oh-oh's, they haunt me / Like ghosts, they want me / To make 'em a-a-all / They won't let go / Ex's and oh's
• 4

  archaicTo live habitually; to stay, to remain.

  • Ieſus therfore walked no more openly amõge the iewes : butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym / and there haunted with his diſciples.
  • […]That yonder in that faithfull wilderneſſe / Huge monſters haunt,and many dangers dwell;[…]
• 5

  dialectalTo accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.

  • […]haunte thi silf to pite [or pitee].
• 6

  dialectalTo practise; to devote oneself to.

  • Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
• 7

  To persist in staying or visiting.

  • I haue charg’d thee not to haunt about my doores:[…]

hauntnoun/hɔːnt/

• 1

  A place at which one is regularly found; a habitation or hangout.

  • The shopping mall is a popular haunt of the local teenagers in this town.
  • I went back the town I used to live and visited all my old haunts.
• 2

  dialectalA ghost.

• 3

  A lair or feeding place of animals in the wild.

  • The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.