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Assay master
(gcide) | Assay \As*say"\, n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See
Essay, n.]
1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more
easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
--Milton.
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2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread
or wine. [Obs.]
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This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak.
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3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk;
hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.]
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Through many hard assays which did betide.
--Spenser.
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4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.]
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With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser.
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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.
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6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure.
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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.
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Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a
compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace.
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Assay master, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver
coin or bullion.
Assay ton, a weight of 29,1662/3 grams.
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