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Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : verb a-sey; noun as-ey, a-sey |
Phonetic Transcription : verb æˈseɪ; noun ˈæs eɪ, æˈseɪ |
Definition of assay
Origin :- c.1300, "to try, endeavor, strive; test the quality of," from Anglo-French assaier, from assai (n.), from Old French essai "trial" (see essay).
- noun analysis
- verb analyze
- That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- If we liken them to gold, she has made her assay and says the gold is pure.
- Extract from : « Jesus the Christ » by James Edward Talmage
- All the places I had to search for her were the stable and the assay office.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- I've seen him like this before—the night he shot our own men in the assay office.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- So one of them brought him the "specimen" and left it for assay.
- Extract from : « Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches » by Edwin Eastman
- Assay has gone through the fragments literally piece by piece.
- Extract from : « Gold in the Sky » by Alan Edward Nourse
- I understand that the assay indicates it is a valuable find.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Triumph » by Burt L. Standish
- Mr. Kensington, I had this assay made for myself, and not for the public.
- Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Triumph » by Burt L. Standish
- On keeping up the heat, the assay will resume its ordinary train.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
- The temperature necessary for the success of an assay is about 150° of Wedgewood.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
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