- (v.t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
- (n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
- (n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
- (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
- (n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (n.) A witness.
- (n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
- (v.i.) To make a testament or will.
- (n.) Alternative of Testa.
- (n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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