n. 试验, 化验, 分析

vt. 化验, 分析, 评价, 尝试

vi. 被验明内含成分

[医] 测定, 鉴定

[经] 检定

Assay \As*say"\, v. i.
To attempt, try, or endeavor. [Archaic. In this sense essay
is now commonly used.]

She thrice assayed to speak. --Dryden.


Assay \As*say"\, n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See
{Essay}, n.]
1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more
easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
--Milton.

2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread
or wine. [Obs.]

This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak.

3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk;
hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.]

Through many hard assays which did betide.
--Spenser.

4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.]

With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser.

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.

6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure.

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}.

Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace.

{Assay master}, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver
coin or bullion.

{Assay ton}, a weight of 29,166 2/3 grams.


Assay \As*say"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Assaying}.] [OF. asaier, essaier, F. essayer, fr. essai. See
{Assay}, n., {Essay}, v.]
1. To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic]

To-night let us assay our plot. --Shak.

Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed.
--Milton.

2. To affect. [Obs.]

When the heart is ill assayed. --Spenser.

3. To try tasting, as food or drink. [Obs.]

4. 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.