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election; to canvass a district with reference to its probable vote. I have made careful search on all hands, and canvassed the matter with all possible diligence. Woodward.

texture of anything or eating away its substance by chemical action; burning; corrosive; searing.

A hot iron for searing or cauterizing. Minsheu.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison.

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

Made of cheveril; pliant. [Obs.] A cheveril conscience and a searching wit. Drayton.

In the first place; principally; preëminently; above; especially. Search through this garden; leave unsearched no nook; But chiefly where those two fair creatures lodge. Milton.

In a clear manner; plainly. Now clear I understand What oft . . . thoughts have searched in vain. Milton.

e quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

ion or action; motive; reason. He was obliged, antecedent to all other considerations, to search an asylum. Dryden. Some considerations which are necessary to the forming of a correct judgment. Macaulay.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.

To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

Careful or anxious to learn; eager for knowledge; given to research or inquiry; habitually inquisitive; prying; -- sometimes with after or of. It is a picurious after things that were elegant and beatiful should not have been as curious as to their origin, their uses, and their natural history. Woodward.…

To frustrate or disappoint. It deludes thy search. Dryden.

A diligent seeking or search; manifested want; desire to posses; request; as, a demand for certain goods; a person's company is in great demand. In 1678 came forth a second edition [Pilgrim's Progress] with additions; and the demand became immense. Macaulay.

To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh.