Lexic.us

Definition of Searcher

1. Noun. Someone making a search or inquiry. "They are seekers after truth"

2. Noun. A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items.

3. Noun. Large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America.

Definition of Searcher

1. n. One who, or that which, searches or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier.

Definition of Searcher

1. Noun. One who searches. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Searcher

1. one that searches [n -S] - See also: searches

Medical Definition of Searcher

1. One who, or that which, searhes or examines; a seeker; an inquirer; an examiner; a trier. Specifically: Formerly, an officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death. An officer of the customs whose business it is to search ships, merchandise, luggage, etc. An inspector of leather. An instrument for feeling after calculi in the bladder, etc. Origin: Cf. OF. Cercheor inspector. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Searcher

search language search mission search party search term search terms search tree search trees search wand search wands search warrant

search warrants searchability searchable searchableness searched searcher (current term) searcher beetle searcheress searcheresses searchers

searches searcheth searching searching fire searchingly searchingness searchings searchless searchlight searchlights

Literary usage of Searcher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"CHAPTER XVIII That a man should not be a curious searcher of the ... He that is a searcher of Majesty shall be oppressed by the glory thereof.1 God is able ..."

2. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch (1852)
"It shall be lawful for (he searcher to open all packages, and fully to examine all goods shipped or brought for shipment at any place in the United ..."

3. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"A total of 12 search terms were selected by the searcher, ... searcher 03 went through the query formulation moves described in table 17 This example search ..."

4. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"It was the business of the searcher to prevent the illegal exportation of goods. Four aliens, two of them Venetians, a denizen, a monk, ..."

5. The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional by Norman Scott Brien Gras (1918)
"It was the business of the searcher to prevent the illegal exportation of goods. Four aliens, two of them Venetians, a denizen, a monk, and a woman were the ..."

6. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1870)
"searcher. Power. Eye-piece B P' 4600 (estimated) „ C without searcher .. .. 1600 I have generally found for the very deepest objectives a very low-power ..."

7. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"That no searcher, during this time of visitation, be permitted to usel any public work or employment, or keep a shop or stall, or be employed as a laundress ..."

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