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noun

Search n. The act of seeking or looking for something; quest; inquiry; pursuit for finding something; examination. "Thus the orb he roamed With narrow search, and with inspection deep Considered every creature." "Nor did my search of liberty begin Till my black hairs were changed upon my chin."

Right of search (Mar. Law), the right of the lawfully commissioned cruisers of belligerent nations to examine and search private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war.

Search warrant (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.

Synonyms: Scrutiny; examination; exploration; investigation; research; inquiry; quest; pursuit.

verb

Search v. t. (past & past part. searched; pres. part. searching)

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. "Search the Scriptures." "They are come to search the house." "Search me, O God, and know my heart."

To inquire after; to look for; to seek. "I will both search my sheep, and seek them out." "Enough is left besides to search and know."

To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.

To examine; to try; to put to the test.

To search out, to seek till found; to find by seeking; as, to search out truth.

Synonyms: To explore; examine; scrutinize; seek; investigate; pry into; inquire.

Search v. i. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt. "Once more search with me." "It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars."

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Etymology of 'Search'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Search" Quotes from Famous Books

... antagonists lay dead at his feet, and he was rushing across the corral in search of a fourth. A giant figure loomed up before him, looking more gigantic from the magnifying effect of the smoke. It was not that of a ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... philosophy. If he was in earnest about any doctrine, it was the doctrine that all knowledge is reminiscence. The following declarations are his. "Soul is older than body." "Souls are continually born over again from Hades into this life." "To search and learn is simply to revive the images of what the soul saw in its pre existent state of being in the world of realities."27 Why should we hesitate to attribute a sincere belief in the metempsychosis to the acknowledged author of ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... I don't like chasing along this way after sundown; and if we're put to it, we've got our fine search-light, you must remember," ...

— The Aeroplane Boys Flight - A Hydroplane Roundup • John Luther Langworthy

... find it where I seek it. For instance, if my penknife is needed, I pull out twenty things—a plough-wedge, a horse nail, an old letter, or a tattered rhyme, in short, everything but my penknife; and that, at last, after a painful, fruitless search, will be found in the unsuspected corner of an unsuspected pocket, as if on purpose thrust out of the way. Still, Sir, I long had a wishing eye to that ...

— The Letters of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... narrative, Brendan proposed to some of his disciples to set out in search of the Land of Promise, and after fasting for forty days for three days at a time, they finally embarked from the neighbourhood of Tralee. There is a very curious description of the corach[2] or skin-boat in which they embarked. It was, it is stated, 'very ...

— Brendan's Fabulous Voyage • John Patrick Crichton Stuart Bute

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