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Essay :: Essay (n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

Essay :: Essay (n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

Tentative :: Tentative (n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.

Didactical :: Didactical (a.) Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays..

Padding :: Padding (n.) Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc..

Disquisition :: Disquisition (n.) A formal or systematic inquiry into, or discussion of, any subject; a full examination or investigation of a matter, with the arguments and facts bearing upon it; elaborate essay; dissertation..

Essayer :: Essayer (n.) One who essays.

Prove :: Prove (v. i.) To make trial; to essay.

Literature :: Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres..

Preface :: Preface (n.) Something spoken as introductory to a discourse, or written as introductory to a book or essay; a proem; an introduction, or series of preliminary remarks..

Envoy :: Envoy (n.) An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi..

Paper :: Paper (n.) A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society..

Squib :: Squib (a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay..

Review :: Review (n.) A periodical containing critical essays upon matters of interest, as new productions in literature, art, etc..

Essay :: Essay (n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend..

Symptom :: Symposium (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Try :: Try (v. t.) To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

Retouch :: Retouch (v. t.) To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay..

Rudimentary :: Rudimentary (a.) Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays..

Scholarly :: Scholarly (a.) Like a scholar, or learned person; showing the qualities of a scholar; as, a scholarly essay or critique..

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