Haunt
Haunt (hant; 277) , transitive verb
[French hanter; of uncertain origin, perh. from an assumed Late Latin ambitare to go about, from Latin ambire (see Ambition); or compare Icelandic heimta to demand, regain, akin to heim home (see Home). r36.]
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.
Those cares that haunt the court and town.
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.
3.
To practice; to devote one's self to. [Obsolete]
That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud... is cursed.
Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
4.
To accustom; to habituate. [Obsolete]
Haunt thyself to pity.
Haunt , intransitive verb
To persist in staying or visiting.
I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Haunt , noun
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.
The feeble soul, a haunt of fears.
In Old English the place occupied by any one as a dwelling or in his business was called a haunt.
2.
The habit of resorting to a place. [Obsolete]
The haunt you have got about the courts.
3.
Practice; skill. [Obsolete]
Of clothmaking she hadde such an haunt.