| Test (test) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Test |
| [OE. test test, or cupel,
potsherd, F. têt, from L. testum an earthen vessel;
akin to testa a piece of burned clay, an earthen pot, a potsherd,
perhaps for tersta, and akin to torrere to patch,
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A cupel or
cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and
refinement.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any
critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a
test.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of
love.
That with which anything is compared for proof
of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of
judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
A reaction employed to recognize
or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as
the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent
employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for
sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium
sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
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To refine, as gold or silver, in a
test, or cupel] to subject to cupellation.
To put to the proof; to prove the truth,
genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard;
to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the
validity of an argument.
To examine or try, as by the use
of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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| Test (test) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Test |
| [L. testis. Cf.
Testament, Testify.] |
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To make a testament, or will.
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| Test (test) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Test |
| ;
pl. E. Tests (# |
The external hard or firm covering of many
invertebrate animals.
The outer integument of a seed;
the episperm, or spermoderm.
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