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Searcher

noun

Someone making a search or inquiry. Synonyms: quester, seeker.

A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items.

Large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America. Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle.

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... drawer lifted, showing another cavity beneath. From this the searcher withdrew a long ...

— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... for Minoan what the Rosetta Stone did for Egyptian hieroglyphics. But it is not beyond the bounds of probability that there may yet come to light some treaty between Crete and Egypt which may put the key into the eager searcher's hands, and enable us to read the original records of this ...

— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

... in me to pretend to determine whether ambition, or zeal for the Prince's service, determined Lord George to take this step; or, if both had a share in it, which was predominant: it belongs to the Searcher of hearts to judge of an action which might have proceeded from ...

— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume III. • Mrs. Thomson

... problem. In front of him lay the wilderness, a trackless chaos of forest and rock and snow wherein he had to find the scar made by a stick of giant powder or the scratching of the shovel. There were, however, points to guide the searcher, and Alton could deduce a good deal from each of them. Jimmy the prospector had, it was evident, perished of hunger and exhaustion, for Alton had traced the last stages of his journey backwards through the snow, and the grim story of human endurance and anguish ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... fortunes in the world waiting for claimants; and that a share of some such fortune was to be obtained by any man who had the talent to dig it out of the obscurity in which it was hidden. He was a student of old county histories, and a searcher of old newspapers; and his studies in that line had made him familiar with many strange stories—stories of field-labourers called away from the plough to be told they were the rightful owners of forty thousand a year; stories of old ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

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