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eek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [Obs.] Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope.

The act of exploring; exploration. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.

ountry or family. [Rarely used in sing.] Some rotten archive, rummaged out of some seldom explored press. Lamb.

To explore for botanical purposes.

f art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

To explore; to examine. [Obs.]

A scout; an explorer. Shak.

.: To plunge or to go deeply into any subject, question, business, etc.; to penetrate; to explore. South.

To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest. [Colloq.]

to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

etic] Myself was stirring ere the break of day. Shak. Ere sails were spread new oceans to explore. Dryden. Sir, come down ere my child die. John iv. 49.

tance, a fact, a reason, a cause, the truth of a statement; to inquire or search into; to explore; as, to examine a mineral; to examine a ship to know whether she is seaworthy; to examine a proposition, theory, or question. Examine well your own thoughts. Chaucer. Examine their counsels and their cares. Shak.…

That may be explored; as, an explorable region.

To explore. [Obs.] Sir. T. Browne.

One who explores; one who examines closely; a searcher.

Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.

y lash, they foin, they pass, they strive to bore Their corselets, and the thinnest parts explore. Dryden.

appy is that people, whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 15. The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. Pope.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.