searcher2 (sercher)

[A var. of searcer, simulating searcher1.] A sieve or strainer. The [orange-] pulp is boiled, and then pa ed through a searcher, to remove the tough skin and pits. Workshop Receipts , 2d ser., p. 446. searchere t (ser'cher-es), n. [ searcher1 + -e .] A female searcher; an inventre . Of theese drirye dolours eeke thow Queene Iuno the searchre e. Stan i hurst , Æneid, iv. searcher ship (sėrʼcher-ship), n. [ serchor ship ; searcher1 + -ship .] The office of searcher or examiner. Wherfor I beseke youre maistirshipp that if my seid Lord have the seid office, that it lyke you to desyre the nomynacion of on of the officez, eythyr of the count roller or serchorship of Pernemuth, for a servaunt of yowrez. Paston Letters, II. 97. 1. Engaged in searching (ser'ching), p. a. seeking, exploring, investigating, or examining: as, a searching party.-2. Keen; penetrating; close: as, a searching discourse; a searching wind; a searching investigation. That's a marvellous searching wine. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 30. Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste. Jones Very, Poems, p. 105. searchingly (ser'ching-li), adv. In a searching IMG:content-0458.png:[graphic] manner. searchingne (sèr'ching-nes), n. The quality of being searching, penetrating, close, or trying.