Explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody

Usage examples of scouting.

The Scots, he had heard, had passed Macclesfield the night before, and all day the militia, horsed by the local squires, had been scouting the moors picking up breechless stragglers.

He is most conscientious, shows exceeding promise, so it is most unlike him to take so long at so commonplace a task as scouting out those damned, indio-arming, excommunicant interlopers upriver in the Shawnee lands.

Guards, which does scouting, patrol, and reconnoissance duty in areas prescribed by the Brigadier.

The Sarpent and I were out scouting about the garrison there, when he told me that the traditions of his people gave an account of a mighty cataract in this neighborhood, and he asked me to vary from the line of march a little to look at the wonder.

Before the travelers had finished washing the next morning, a scouting party of Scrow appeared at the edge of the black willow grove.

Then, while Shepp and Ty were down in Kentucky, visiting his folks and scouting for horses, Bubba, Gloria, and Serena were going to stay at the farm.

Hal Hopping in the lead, the first six Dauntlesses of Scouting Six slanted abruptly down, beginning their glide- bombing runs.

I was scouting things for, um, some fishing buddies, and the lady here said a guy named Al Spenser might be a good guide.

Mica Ertegun and Chessy Rayner, scouting for their design firm, MACII, paused to ask Max if he might be interested in a Biedermeier mantel clock they had found to add to his collection.

But Lex, being the son of Murichon Burns, had been off planet twice, once when he was just thirteen, on a scouting trip into Cassiopeian territory to determine the feasibility of trade routes into the galaxy.

The dense star fields glowed brightly, with no space debris in the relatively small areas between old suns, and the only reason for patrolling it at all was to forestall a Cassiopeian scouting sweep into Empire from the rear.

The danger was too great for the dogs, their handlers and the Marines they were leading: incompetent scouting was a deadly formula.

The primary value of our dogs lay in scouting, in exploring caves and pillboxes, or as sentries.

This was the first time the Japanese had shot one of our dogs while scouting in front of a handler, and it would become standard procedure.

After the noon break he took the grulla from the remuda and went scouting.