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1.
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
Source : opted (157329)  - auto
 
2.
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
Source : opted (157330)  - auto
 
3.
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
Source : opted (157331)  - auto
 
4.
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
Source : opted (157332)  - auto
 
5.
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
Source : opted (157333)  - auto
 
6.
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
Source : opted (157334)  - auto
 
7.
A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
Source : opted (157335)  - auto
 
8.
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
Source : opted (157338)  - auto
 
9.
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.
Source : opted (157339)  - auto
 
10.
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
Source : opted (157340)  - auto
 

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