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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.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Condition :: Condition (n.) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains)..

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

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

Assay :: Assay (v.) To affect.

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

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

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..

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

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.

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