With finding something as a purpose. intransitive. To make a thorough search of a place, collection of things, etc. Frequently with in, through. Also…

intransitive. To search; to rummage. Also transitive. Now Scottish.

intransitive. To make a thorough search of a place, receptacle, etc.

intransitive. To use a rake; to go over, scrape at, or search something with or as with a rake. Chiefly with prepositions.

intransitive. To hunt or search industriously or cautiously; to go or move about softly in search of or as if in search of something; to prowl. Also…

Of actions resembling a ferret's. intransitive. To rummage, search about; †to be restless, worry; also, to ferret up and down.

intransitive. To engage in poaching. Also: to hunt about or rummage (for something).

intransitive. To engage in a thorough but unsystematic or untidy search, esp. in a particular place or among an accumulation of things. Frequently…

intransitive. To search through something in an unsystematic or untidy way: to rummage. Chiefly with prepositions or adverbs, as around, at, in, etc.

intransitive. To dig or grub about (frequently with the aim of finding something); to rummage.

Originally and chiefly U.S. intransitive. With about, around. To search around; to root about; to rummage.