Definition of seek

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Seek (v. t.) To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

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Seek :: Seek (v. t.) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life..
Concubinage :: Concubinage (n.) A plea, in which it is alleged that the woman suing for dower was not lawfully married to the man in whose lands she seeks to be endowed, but that she was his concubine..
Touter :: Touter (n.) One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office..
Zetetic :: Zetetic (n.) A seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.
Demand :: Demand (v. t.) The asking or seeking for what is due or claimed as due.
Opportunism :: Opportunism (n.) The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences..
Repent :: Repent (v. i.) To be sorry for sin as morally evil, and to seek forgiveness; to cease to love and practice sin..
Job :: Job (v. i.) To seek private gain under pretense of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
Adventurer :: Adventurer (n.) One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises..
Competitor :: Competitor (n.) One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival..
Court :: Court (v. t.) To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
Valetudinarian :: Valetudinarian (n.) A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
Claim :: Claim (v./.) To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due..
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To be expectant; to look with expectation; to wait; to seek opportunity.
Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary..
Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse..
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..
Bird :: Bird (v. i.) Hence: To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
Consult :: Consult (v. i.) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Suit :: Suist (n.) One who seeks for things which gratify merely himself; a selfish person; a selfist.
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