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TRY, v.i. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]

TRY, v.t. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.

3. To act upon as a test.

The fire sev'n times tried this.

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

5. To essay; to attempt.

Let us try advent'rous work.

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

7. To search carefully into. Ps.11.

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.

To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.




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TRY, v.i. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]

TRY, v.t. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.

3. To act upon as a test.

The fire sev'n times tried this.

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

5. To essay; to attempt.

Let us try advent'rous work.

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

7. To search carefully into. Ps.11.

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.

To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.


TRY, v.i. [This word is from the root of Dan. trekker, to draw, or trykker, Sw. trycka, to press, to urge; trachta, to seek or strive to obtain; D. tragten, to endeavor; Dan. tragter, id. The primary sense of all these words is to strain, to use effort, to stretch forward.]

To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]


TRY, v.t.

  1. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak.
  2. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold. Dryden.
  3. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.
  4. To act upon as a test. The fire sev'n times tried this. Shak.
  5. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as, causes tried in court.
  6. To essay; to attempt. Let us try advent'rous work. Milton.
  7. To purify; to refine; as, silver seven times tried.
  8. To search carefully into. Ps. xi.
  9. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.
  10. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word. To try on, to put on a garment to see if it fits the person. To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes. To try out, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.

Try
  1. To divide or separate, as one sort from another] to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good.

    [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.
  2. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.
  3. A screen, or sieve, for grain.

    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Holland.
  4. Refined; select; excellent; choice.

    [Obs.] "Sugar that is try." Chaucer.
  5. In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; -- so called because it entitles the side making it to a place kick for a goal (counting two points more if successful).
  6. To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.

    Shak.

    The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Ps. xii. 6.

    For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Ps. lxvi. 10.

  7. To do; to fare; as, how do you try!

    [Prov. Eng.]
  8. Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

    This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends. Shak.

    Try cock, a gauge cock. See under Gauge.

  9. To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test; as, to try weights or measures by a standard; to try a man's opinions.

    Let the end try the man. Shak.

  10. To subject to severe trial; to put to the test; to cause suffering or trouble to.

    Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleased. Milton.

  11. To experiment with; to test by use; as, to try a remedy for disease; to try a horse.

    Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. Shak.

    To ease her cares the force of sleep she tries. Swift.

  12. To strain; to subject to excessive tests; as, the light tries his eyes; repeated disappointments try one's patience.
  13. To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal.
  14. To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms; as, to try rival claims by a duel; to try conclusions.

    Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried. Shak.

  15. To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience.

    Milton.

    Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold. Dryden.

  16. To essay; to attempt; to endeavor.

    Let us try . . . to found a path. Milton.

    To try on. (a) To put on, as a garment, to ascertain whether it fits the person. (b) To attempt; to undertake. [Slang] Dickens.

    Syn. -- To attempt; endeavor; strive; aim; examine. -- Try, Attempt. To try is the generic, to attempt is the specific, term. When we try, we are usually uncertain as to success; when we attempt, we have always some definite object in view which we seek to accomplish. We may be indifferent as to the result of a trial, but we rarely attempt anything without a desire to succeed.

    He first deceased: she for a little tried
    To live without him; liked it not, and died.
    Sir H. Wotton.

    Alack, I am afraid they have a waked,
    And 't is not done. The attempt, and not the deed,
    Confounds us.
    Shak.

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Try

TRY, verb intransitive To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.]

TRY, verb transitive To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.

3. To act upon as a test.

The fire sev'n times tried this.

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

5. To essay; to attempt.

Let us try advent'rous work.

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

7. To search carefully into. Psalms 11:4.

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.

To try tallow, etc. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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