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S — Search to Seldom (Part 1 of 11)

Search, v. a.

    1. Examine, explore, scrutinize, investigate, overhaul, sift, inspect, look into, search into, pry into, peer into.
    2. Inquire after, seek, look for.
    3. Probe.
    4. Examine, try, test.

Search, v. n.

    1. Seek, look, make search, hunt.
    2. Inquire, make inquiry.

Search, n. Examination, inquiry, scrutiny, research, exploration, investigation, quest, pursuit, inspection, seeking.

Searcher, n. Seeker, explorer, examiner, inquirer, investigator, trier.

Searching, a.

    1. Penetrating, trying, close, keen.
    2. Exploring, examining, inquiring, seeking, investigating, probing.

Searchless, a. Unsearchable, inscrutable.

Seared, a.

    1. Cauterized, burnt on the surface.
    2. Hardened, callous, impenitent, unrepentant, obdurate, graceless, incorrigible, shameless, irreclaimable.

Searedness, n. Hardness, insensibility.

Sea-robber, n. Pirate, corsair, buccaneer, picaroon, sea-rover, sea-thief.

Sea-rover, n. See Sea-Robber.

Sea-salt, n Common salt (obtained by evaporating sea-water), chloride of sodium, muriate of soda.

Sea-scape, n. Sea-piece, sea-picture.

Sea-shore, n. Beach, strand, shore, sea-coast.