Crossword-Solution: ASSAY 5 letters, 241 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Assay n. Trial; attempt; essay.
Assay n. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread
or wine.
Assay n. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship;
state of being tried.
Assay n. Tested purity or value.
Assay n. 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.
Assay n. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
Assay v. To try; to attempt; to apply.
Assay v. To affect.
Assay v. To try tasting, as food or drink.
Assay v. 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.
Assay v. i. To attempt, try, or endeavor.

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ASSAY anagram SAYAS, SAYSA

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Test the quality of metal 1 answer
Test metal content in the lab 1 answer
A miner test? 1 answer
Acid test, e.g. 1 answer
Analysis of an ore 1 answer
Analyze a metal sample 1 answer
Analyze a metal. 1 answer
Analyze a metallic compound 1 answer
Analyze an alloy 1 answer
Analyze chemically 1 answer
Analyze for gold content 1 answer
Analyze for purity 1 answer
Analyze for smelting value 1 answer
Analyze gold ore 1 answer
Analyze in a laboratory 1 answer
Analyze metal 1 answer
Analyze metals 1 answer
Analyze ore 1 answer
Analyze rock 1 answer
Analyze the composition of 1 answer
Analyze the makeup of 1 answer
Analyze the value 1 answer
Analyze the value of 1 answer
Analyze, as alloys 1 answer
Analyze, as an alloy 1 answer
Analyze, as metal 1 answer
Analyze, as metals 1 answer
Analyze, as ore 1 answer
Analyze, as substances 1 answer
Analyze, like ore 1 answer
Appraisal of the state of affairs 1 answer
Check for content 1 answer
Check for purity 1 answer
Check ore 1 answer
Check rocks 1 answer
Check the contents of 1 answer
Composition test 1 answer
Determine if it's gold 1 answer
Drug-development experiment 1 answer
Estimate metals 1 answer
Evaluate for purity 1 answer
Evaluate ore samples 1 answer
Evaluate, as gold 1 answer
Evaluate, as metal 1 answer
Evaluate, as ore 1 answer
Laboratory evaluation 1 answer
Examine for purity 1 answer
Examine for value 1 answer
Examine ore 1 answer
Examine, as ore 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with ASSAY (5)

Ill for thee, but in wisht houre Of my revenge, first sought for thou returnst From flight, seditious Angel, to receave Thy merited reward, the first assay Of this right hand provok’t, since first that tongue Inspir’d with contradiction durst oppose A third part of the Gods, in Synod met Thir Deities to assert, who while they feel Vigour Divine within them, can allow Omnipotence to none.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
This Man, born and now upgrown, 140 To shew him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction, henceforth I expose To Satan; let him tempt, and now assay His utmost subtlety, because he boasts And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng Of his Apostasy.
Paradise Regained John Milton 1993
Unlike those who feel that the Bill of Rights should be re-interpreted and re-shaped and re- packaged to feed their power frenzy, I say it's worked for 200 years and I don't want to fix something if it ain't broke." "One needs to weigh the consequences of breaking and entering a computer, assay the purpose, evaluate the goal against the possi- ble negatives before wildly embarking through a foreign computer.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Downright English am I, Sir Knight, and downright English was my patron St Dunstan, and scorned ‘oc’ and ‘oui’, as he would have scorned the parings of the devil’s hoof—downright English alone shall be sung in this cell.” “I will assay, then,” said the knight, “a ballad composed by a Saxon glee-man, whom I knew in Holy Land.” It speedily appeared, that if the knight was not a complete master of the minstrel art, his taste for it had at least been cultivated under the best instructors.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
See Essay.] µ Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with ASSAY (3)

Thus Arthur achieved the adventure of the sword that day and entered into his birthright of royalty. Wherefore, may God grant His Grace unto you all that ye too may likewise succeed in your undertakings. For any man may be a king in that life in which he is placed if so he may draw forth the sword of success from out of the iron of circumstance. Wherefore when your time of assay cometh, I do hope it may be with you as it was with Arthur that day, and that ye too may achieve s…
Howard Pyle
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.
John Hersey
When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay.
Samuel G. Blythe The Fun of Getting Thin
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 407 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).