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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
assay .
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The British standard has 18 dwt.; the Spanish coins assayed by Sir Isaac Newton, have from 18 to 19 1/2 dwt.; the new French crown has in fact 19 1/2, though by edict it should have 20 dwt., that is 1/12.
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The silver coin assayed by Sir Isaac Newton, varied from 1 1/2 to 76 pennyweights alloy, in the pound troy of mixed metal.
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The British standard has 18 dwt.; the Spanish coins assayed by Sir Isaac Newton, have from 18 to 19 1-2 dwt.; the new French crown has in fact 19 1-2, though by edict, it should have 20 dwt., that is 1-12.
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The silver coin assayed by Sir Isaac Newton, varied from 1 1-2 to 76 pennyweights alloy, in the pound troy of mixed metal.
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The British standard has 18 dwt.; the Spanish coins assayed by
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
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The silver coin assayed by Sir Isaac Newton, varied from 1 1/2 to 76 pennyweights alloy, in the pound troy of mixed metal.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
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When it is delivered, it is first of all "assayed"; that is, tested to find out how nearly pure it is and how much it is worth.
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Presumably that just doesn't interest him since he's barely assayed such a common, almost inevitable role.
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The July issue of Jack of Fables has a guest story from me, featuring the story of how the title character once assayed the role of Lord of the Jungle, and this fall the first issue of a miniseries spinning out of Bill Willingham's Fables will hit comic shops, Cinderella: From Fabletown With Love.
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He and others assayed the serotonin-transporter genes of seven of the 22 species of macaque, the primate genus to which the rhesus monkey belongs.
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