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(1):

(n.) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

(2):

(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.

(3):

(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.

(4):

(n.) Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.

(5):

(n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

(6):

(n.) That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.

(7):

(n.) Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.

(8):

(v. t.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.

(9):

(v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

(10):

(n.) Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.

(11):

(v. i.) To make a testament, or will.

(12):

(n.) A witness.

(13):

(n.) Alt. of Testa

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Test'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/test.html. 1828.
 
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