Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A specimen of any aggregate; a sample taken from a mass, or one of the first productions of some process, by which to determine the quality or character of the rest.
- noun A production from which to determine the capacity or ability of the producer.
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It is a painful confession for a man destined eventually to fill a certain part in the annals of conjuring to make, that my trial-piece turned out so lamentably.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858
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