Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

Usage examples of reconnoitring.

During this dispute, we could plainly perceive, from our ramparts and church-steeple, several persons of distinction mounted on English horses, reconnoitring our fortification through perspective glasses.

Count and his son would never yield to his solicitations so far, as to let him accompany Renaldo in those excursions and reconnoitring parties, by which a volunteer inures himself to toil and peril, and acquires that knowledge in the operations of war, which qualifies him for a command in the service.

The reconnoitring party melted before them, and the infantry delivered their fire with fatal effect.

When we returned in the evening after our reconnoitring, we had no need of a Turkish bath.

The two small black figures in the distance, on the right, are Hassel and I, who are reconnoitring ahead.

It was evidently busy in reconnoitring, and in receiving accessions to its numbers.

A little reconnoitring told them that the hole which Joel had pointed out, had not been closed since the entrance of Willoughby and his companions.

In reconnoitring, in distributing proclamations, in collecting arms, in overawing outlying districts, weak columns must be used.

For a time the British seemed to have completely lost touch with Olivier, who suddenly on August 24th struck at a small detachment consisting almost entirely of Queenstown Rifle Volunteers under Colonel Ridley, who were reconnoitring near Winburg.

Those reconnoitring, who will return to find nothing but carnage where the tunnel once was.

But without actually reconnoitring, it was impossible to decide whether we could link up.

We were busy road-repairing for the next day or two, and officers were reconnoitring forward to see the lie of the country which we were to take over.

Here, a little farther along the coast, a reconnoitring party of seven landed and found four negro hunters sitting on the beach, armed with bows and arrows, who fled on seeing the strangers.

I HAD almost forgotten to state that, from the first moment of our landing, the want of cavalry, so useful in obtaining information and reconnoitring the open country, was very sensibly felt.

She had ridden thither with her brother and Sir Clement Fisher, and while they were examining the broken bridge with General Massey, her quick eye detected a small reconnoitring party of the enemy in an orchard on the opposite side of the river.