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the color or the hardness and texture of the surface; to scorch; to make callous; as, to sear the skin or flesh. Also used figuratively. I'm seared with burning steel. Rowe. It was in vain that the amiable divine tried to give salutary pain to that seared conscience. Macaulay. The discipline of war, being a discipline…

-- applied to leaves. Milton. I have lived long enough; my way of life Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf. Shak.

A fine sieve. [Obs.]

A searce, or sieve. [Obs.] Holland.

ook over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city. "Search the Scriptures." John v. 39. They are come to search the house. Shak. Search me, O God, and know my heart. Ps. cxxxix. 23.

Capable of being searched.

Quality of being searchable.

One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Specifically:

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.

Cerecloth. Mortimer.

ched; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences. A seared conscience and a remorseless heart. Macaulay.

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.

To sear; to dry up. [Obs.] Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.

To make search; to try to find something. [Obs.] -- v. t.

To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch. [Obs.]

To search all over.

To search again; to examine anew.

To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.