Found 1 items, similar to assay master.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Assay master Assay \As*say"\, n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See Essay, n.] 1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Through many hard assays which did betide. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 5. (Metallurgy) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin. [1913 Webster] 6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure. [1913 Webster] Usage: Assay and essay are radically the same word; but modern usage has appropriated assay chiefly to experiments in metallurgy, and essay to intellectual and bodily efforts. See Essay. [1913 Webster] Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace. [1913 Webster] Assay master, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver coin or bullion. Assay ton, a weight of 29,166 2/3 grams. [1913 Webster]