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Person on a quest
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searcher
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n. someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" [syn: seeker , quester ] 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; ...
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Searcher or Searchers may refer to: HMS Searcher , a list of ships HMS Searcher (D40) , a British escort carrier USS Searcher (AGR-4) , a United States radar picket ship IAI Searcher , a type of unmanned aerial vehicle Searchers (search engine) , an internet ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Searcher \Search"er\, n. [Cf. OF. cercheor inspector.] One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Specifically: Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause ...
Usage examples of searcher.
No searchers imagined Burnside headed through the cemetery and downhill.
But Searcher stayed with Dawn, scampering along as well as an augmented racoon could.
Then, with that guardian angel who cares for daring stumbling imprudent searchers of nature standing by him, Koch deftly slid this splinter under the skin of a healthy mouse.
I took to my earth in one of the lowest boxes, hoping that the unpiling of the others might give me warning enough to rouse myself for some defense if searchers came again by day.
New searchers were starting to hunt Verdugo, replacing others who had returned.
But I supposed the searchers were no more likely to enter Alsatia than were the bailiffs and catchpoles, so we were safeif that was the wordfrom the graspings of the law.
Louis XVI the projector, Laperouse and de Langle the commanders, Dentrecasteaux and Kermadec the searchers, Andre Chenier the laureate: the breath of the black-robed Fury was upon them all!
Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval-glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.
Then a searcher would still be wandering through space thirty or forty billion years in the future, when the universe collapsed toward its inexorable endpoint of infinite pressure and temperature.
One searcher thought she was caught by a trap when she squeezed a mostly used tube of adhesive and it stuck the phalanges of a forelimb together.
Buried away under the matted hair of the cattle hid those ticks, and the little ones out in the open seemed to crawl away under the hair when the cramped fingers of the searchers went after them.
You would think he would have advised the government to start an exterminating war on ticks, but that was not the kind of searcher Theobald Smith was.
In Search of the Castaways New Zealand CHAPTER I A ROUGH CAPTAIN IF ever the searchers after Captain Grant were tempted to despair, surely it was at this moment when all their hopes were destroyed at a blow.
These diagrams were meant to help the searchers ascertain whether or not the message had been intended as a two-dimensional picture.
Then might she hope with a real hope, for the fields would give her sustenance which she could gain by night, while by day she hid among the surrounding hills, and sometime, yes, sometime she knew, the searchers would come, for John Carter, Warlord of Barsoom, would never cease to search for his daughter until every square haad of the planet had been combed again and again.