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English Dictionary: seeker by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seeker
n
  1. someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth"
    Synonym(s): seeker, searcher, quester
  2. a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Seeker \Seek"er\, n.
      1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
  
      2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th
            century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the
            true church, ministry, and sacraments.
  
                     A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like
                     our new upstart sect of Seekers.         --Bullokar.
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