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Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.

Assay :: Assay (v.) To try tasting, as food or drink..

Assaying :: Assaying (n.) The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal..

Assayer :: Assayer (n.) One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver..

Scorify :: Scorify (v. t.) To reduce to scoria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag..

Assay :: Assay (v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor..

Assay :: Assay (n.) Trial; attempt; essay.

Button :: Button (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion..

Assay :: Assay (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.

Saymaster :: Saymaster (n.) A master of assay; one who tries or proves.

Prill :: Prill (n.) The button of metal from an assay.

Parting :: Parting (n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button..

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

Hydrometallurgy :: Hydrometallurgy (n.) The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

Hall-mark :: Hall-mark (n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers..

Misassay :: Misassay (v. t.) To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully..

Say :: Say (n.) Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack.

Assayed :: Assayed (imp. & p. p.) of Assa.

Assay :: Assay (n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine..

Docimology :: Docimology (n.) A treatise on the art of testing, as in assaying metals, etc..

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