Search \Search\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Searched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Searching}.] [OE. serchen, cerchen, OF. cerchier, F. chercher, L. circare to go about, fr. L. circum, circa, around. See {Circle}.] 1. To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. ``Search the Scriptures.'' --John v. 39.
They are come to search the house. --Shak.
Search me, O God, and know my heart. --Ps. cxxxix. 23.
2. To inquire after; to look for; to seek.
I will both search my sheep, and seek them out. --Ezek. xxxiv. 11.
Enough is left besides to search and know. --Milton.
3. To examine or explore by feeling with an instrument; to probe; as, to search a wound.
4. 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.
Syn: To explore; examine; scrutinize; seek; investigate; pry into; inquire.
Search \Search\, v. i. To seek; to look for something; to make inquiry, exploration, or examination; to hunt.
Once more search with me. --Shak.
It sufficeth that they have once with care sifted the matter, and searched into all the particulars. --Locke.
Search \Search\, n. [Cf. OF. cerche. See {Search}, v. t.] 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. --Milton.
Nor did my search of liberty begin Till my black hairs were changed upon my chin. --Dryden.
{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.
The teacher waited with them for the missing students and then took a ski lift up the slope to search.
Authorities said they will begin excavating a site Monday in search of evidence in the shooting deaths of four members of a family and the disappearance of a relative eight months ago.
He says he can't confirm, however, reports that Taiwan officials had already approached Boeing Co. in search of alternatives.
The search is continuing for two other people who lived with the suspect, police said.
If companies reduce the stock-option portion, they'll have to offer more cash to new employees, predicts Steven Garfinkle of Richards Consultants, a Wellesley Hills, Mass. search firm.
Brown-Forman said First Boston Corp. has been retained to assist it in the search for a buyer.
They volunteered to let them search the car, their house, whatever," Anderson said.
"It's a feeding frenzy," said Butch Johnson, a fisherman in search of nets who lives in the Prince William Sound fishing community of Cordova.
The only previous excavation of Birka was conducted 100 years ago by Hjalmar Stolpe, a zoologist who came in search of insect fossils in 1871 and stayed 24 years to dig up many of the 2,500 Viking age graves.
Once there, 40 police officers will search for bodies.
U.S. and Vietnamese officials will meet next week in Hanoi to discuss joint efforts to search for Americans missing from the war, administration spokesmen said Thursday.
"Herb the Nerd was a trumped up deal," he said, while the search for Valerie is just "a minor thread" in a campaign that relies on realism.
Turkish civil defense workers, helped by a 32-member West German rescue team with search dogs, shoveled through the mud and stones that roared down on the mountain village Thursday morning.
In "Marathon Man," a 1976 thriller with Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, a vicious Nazi (Olivier) risks going to the Jewish quarter in New York in search of diamonds.
In the one-store hamlet of Spotted Horse, former roustabout Craig McGee, a slight man in scuffed boots and torn jeans, downs a beer and reviews his job search: tried to get hired as a dogcatcher but wasn't qualified, tried for a jailer's job but failed.
The president's new budget calls for a revamped job-training and job search program for "displaced" workers that would cost nearly three times the $344 million appropriated for the current fiscal year.
The search for a nominee to fill the important vacancy could stretch to the end of the month or early May.
An all-night search turned up no sign of the boat or its passengers.
Late last year, after a grueling search that began with 120 names, Lockheed appointed to its board four new outside directors, all of whom received the blessing of the top 11 institutional holders.
Theyes said he hoped the search of files would wind up Monday night.
A federal judge ordered the prosecutor to search government files for any additional evidence that should be surrendered to defense lawyers.
Paul Brountas, a law school classmate and close friend of the governor, is expected to head the search effort.
They also were to sign forms authorizing U.S. investigators to search the records of several foreign banks where they are said to have assets.
"The failure to regain contact led us to wonder whether there had been an actual contact with the miners or with a search team," Kraemer said.
And it is the rider's job to search the herd for cows that will best show the horse's stuff.
Israeli sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Israeli soldiers and South Lebanon Army fighters continued to search the area hours after the clash.
A small group of students invited the public to devote this gathering to what could fittingly be described as meditation in which everyone would search his own conscience.
Iraq refused and countered that Iran must relinquish its right to search ships in international waters for weapons bound for Iraq. Iran has not searched any ships since the cease-fire took effect.
The Swiss Disaster Relief Corps offered to send rescue experts and search dogs to help locate earthquake victims, a spokesman said.