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An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc.

Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye. "Piercing, searching, biting, cold." Dickens. -- Search"ing*ly, adv. -- Search"ing*ness, n.

Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.

An apparatus for projecting a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays, usually devised so that it can be swiveled about.

One who belongs to the squirarchy. -- Squir"arch*al, a.

The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively. [Written also squirearchy.]

Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality. Addison. Starch hyacinth (Bot.), the grape hyacinth; -- so called because the flowers have the smell of boiled starch. See under Grape.

Stiffened with starch.

The quality or state of being starched; stiffness in manners; formality.

One who starches.

In a starched or starch manner.

Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

Consisting of starch; resembling starch; stiff; precise.

The master of a feast.

Joint rule or sovereignity. [R.] Stackhouse.

An Athenian military officer commanding a certain division of an army. Milford.

A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.

A tetrarchy.

Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.