Test(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Test(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Test(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Test(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Test(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Test(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Test(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.
Test(n.) Alt. of Testa
Test(n.) A witness.
Test(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.
Test(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Test(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.
Test(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Teste(n.) A witness.
Teste(n.) The witnessing or concluding clause, duty attached; -- said of a writ, deed, or the like.
Tested(imp. & p. p.) of Test
Testes(n.) pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
Testes(pl. ) of Testis
Testing(n.) The act of testing or proving; trial; proof.
Testing(n.) The operation of refining gold or silver in a test, or cupel; cupellation.
Testing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Test
Tests(pl. ) of Testa
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