Crossword clues for assayed
assayed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assay \As*say"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Assaying.] [OF. asaier, essaier, F. essayer, fr. essai. See Assay, n., Essay, v.]
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To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic]
To-night let us assay our plot.
--Shak.Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed.
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To affect. [Obs.]
When the heart is ill assayed.
--Spenser. To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]
To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: assay)
Usage examples of "assayed".
If the substance to be assayed is an alloy of silver and copper, first cupel 0.
Since the 20 grams assayed was 1-20th of the whole, 1-20th part of the 0.
Suppose the bullion being assayed varies only a little, up or down, from 900 gold and 100 copper in the thousand, and that .
The further precaution that if any dross be on the surface of the metal it shall be skimmed off and separately sampled and assayed is almost too obvious to require mention.
In each case the titration must be preceded by an exact preparation of the solution to be assayed in order that the iron may be in the right state of oxidation.
The sample is taken wet as it arrives at the smelting house, and is assayed direct.
Gold from the pages of the Bible, down through the ages, to the hull of that ship, and thence to the samples that I have assayed in my laboratory in the Tower of London.
There were still goods to be assayed and shipped, miners to be fed and medicated and entertained, remnants of businesses to be tended, and most of the people remaining on Tundra gathered in Klondike, a once-prosperous city.
Only those above sixteen karats are sent on here to Khanbalik, and only those assayed at the fineness of pure unalloyed gold, twenty-four karats, have any hope of getting near the great Khakhan.
Although it was far lower than treetops he would have assayed without trepidation, he felt a momentary pang of acrophobia.