sear2 (ser)

[Early mod. E. also seare, sere; The clown shall make those laugh whose lungs are tickle of the sere. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 336. Discovering the moods and humours of the vulgar sort to be so loose and tickle of the seare. = It. cercare, search, That have pa ed many Londes and man ye Yles and Con trees, and cerched man ye fulle straunge places, and have ben in many a fulle gode honourable Companye. Mandeville , Travels, p. 315. Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan. Num. xiii. 2. Help to search my house this one time. If I find not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity. Shak ., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 167. 2. To examine by probing; probe: as, to search a wound. The wounded lete hem be ledde to townes, and serched theire sores. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 664. You search the sore too deep. Fletcher, Val ent in i an, i. 3. Such engines of terror God hath given into the hand of his minister as to search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton , Church-Government, ii. 3. 3. To test; put to the test; try. [Rare.] Thou hast searched me, and known me. Ps. cxxxix. 1. Prosperity does search a gentleman's temper More than his adverse fortune. See radish .