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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Assay

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  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: No
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: No
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: No
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Assay

ASSA'Y, noun [Latin sequor; assequor, to follow, to examine. See Essay.]

1. The trial of the goodness, purity, weight, value, etc. of metals or metallic substances. Any operation or experiement for ascertaining the quantity of a precious metal in an ore or mineral. Analysis is a term of more comprehensive import, extending to an examination of the nature and quantities of all parts of the compound.

2. In law, an examination of weights and measures by the standard.

3. Examination; trial; effort; first entrance upon any business; attempt. In these senses, which are found in old authors, now rarely used. [See Essay.]

4. Value; great purity. obsolete

ASSA'Y, verb transitive

1. To try or prove, by examination or experiment, the quantity and purity of metallic substances.

2. To apply to the touchstone.

ASSA'Y, verb intransitive To attempt, try or endeavor.

He assayed to go. 1 Samuel 17:39.

[In this sense essay is now used.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Assay-balance

ASSAY-BALANCE, noun A balance for the trial of the weight and purity of metals.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Assayed

ASSA'YED, participle passive Examined; tested; proved by experiment.


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Assayer

ASSA'YER, noun One who examines metals to find their quantity and purity. An officer of the mint, whose business is to try the weight and purity of metals.


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Assaying

ASSA'YING, participle present tense Trying by some standard; examining by experiment, as metals; proving; attempting.


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Assay-master

ASSAY-MASTER, noun An assayer; an officer appointed to try the weight and fineness of the precious metals.