Assay: Definition and part of speech

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Assay

  1. n. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  2. n. Trial; attempt; essay.
  3. n. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
  4. n. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  5. n. Tested purity or value.
  6. 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.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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