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207 words match “SEEK”

FIND v. 2 definitions
To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
FIRE n.
les. -- Fire eater. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding…
FISH v.
To seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments. Any other fishing question. Sir W. Scott.
FORFEIT n.
Injury; wrong; mischief. [Obs. & R.] To seek arms upon people and country that never did us any forfeit. Ld. Berners.
FORTUNE n.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak. His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune. Swift.
FUMBLE v.
To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse. Dryden. My understanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.
GILL n.
e water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselves. -- Gill opening, or Gill slit (Anat.), an opening behind and below the head of most fishes, and some amphibians, by which the water from the gills is discharged. In most fishes there is a single open…
GO v.
for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. Dic…
GOAL n.
e end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain. Each individual seeks a several goal. Pope.
GOPHER n.
uthern United States. Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.
GROUSE v.
To seek or shoot grouse.
HAMESECKEN; HAMESUCKEN n.
The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house. Bouvier.
HAMSTRING v.
cripple; to incapacitate; to disable. So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home. Milton.
HARM v.
never harmed me. Shak. No ground of enmity between us known Why he should mean me ill or seek to harm. Milton.
HEARKEN v.
To inquire; to seek information. [Obs.] "Hearken after their offense." Shak.
HEARTSTRIKE v.
To affect at heart; to shock. [R.] "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.
HIDE v.
rawn from sight or observation. Bred to disguise, in public 'tis you hide. Pope. Hide and seek, a play of children, in which some hide themselves, and others seek them. Swift.
HOLD v.
hold me. Ps. cxxxix. 10. They all hold swords, being expert in war. Cant. iii. In vain he seeks, that having can not hold. Spenser. France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . . . A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. Shak.
HUNT v. 2 definitions
To search diligently after; to seek; to pursue; to follow; -- often with out or up; as, to hunt up the facts; to hunt out evidence. Evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him. Ps. cxl. 11.
HUNTER n.
One who hunts or seeks after anything, as if for game; as, a fortune hunter a place hunter. No keener hunter after glory breathes. Tennyson.
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