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

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

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight..

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

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

Sayman :: Sayman (n.) One who assays.

Say :: Say (v. t.) To try; to assay.

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

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..

Assay :: Assay (v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition..

Assay :: Assay (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin..

Essay :: Essay (n.) An assay. See Assay, n..

Scorifier :: Scorifier (n.) One who, or that which, scorifies; specifically, a small flat bowl-shaped cup used in the first heating in assaying, to remove the earth and gangue, and to concentrate the gold and silver in a lead button..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

Assaying :: Assaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assa.

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