Crossword-Solution: ASSAY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ASSAY | anagram | SAYAS, SAYSA |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
See Essay.] µ Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace.
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…
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.
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.
Where this answer appears
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).