Assay

Definitions

1. Trial, attempt.
2. Examination and determination; test.
3. The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
4. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
5. Tested purity or value.
6. 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.
7. The alloy or metal to be assayed.

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Examples

“I am withal persuaded that it may prove⟳ much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.”

“This cannot be, by no assay of reason⟳.”

“Through many hard assayes which did betide.”

“Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay.”

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