tryer

Definitions

Alternative spelling of trier.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“[…] I had once brought me a certain Earth, by a Gentleman that digg'd it up in this, or ſome neighboring Country, vvhich, though it ſeem'd but a Mineral Earth, did really afford⟳, to a very expert tryer of Metals of my acquaintance, a not deſpicable proportion of Gold.”

“The Spartans did not allow⟳ the father to dispose of his child as he thought fit, for he was obliged to take⟳ it to the tryers, who, if they found it puny and ill-shaped, ordered it to be carried to a sort⟳ of chasm under Taygetus […]”

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