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Definition of Test
Test Test Test, n. [L. testis. Cf. Testament, Testify.]
A witness. [Obs.]
Prelates and great lords of England, who were for the
more surety tests of that deed. --Ld. Berners.
Test Test Test, v. i. [L. testari. See Testament.]
To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]
Test Test Test, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tested; p. pr. & vb. n.
Testing.]
1. (Metal.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or
cupel; to subject to cupellation.
2. To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or
quality of by experiment, or by some principle or
standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a
principle; to test the validity of an argument.
Experience is the surest standard by which to test
the real tendency of the existing constitution.
--Washington.
3. (Chem.) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent;
as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Test Test Test, Testa Tes"ta, n.; pl. E. Tests, L. Test[ae].
[L. testa a piece of burned clay, a broken piece of
earthenware, a shell. See Test a cupel.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The external hard or firm covering of many
invertebrate animals.
Note: The test of crustaceans and insects is composed largely
of chitin; in mollusks it is composed chiefly of
calcium carbonate, and is called the shell.
2. (Bot.) The outer integument of a seed; the episperm, or
spermoderm.
