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e a declaration. Observation is, in turn, wanted to direct and substantiate the course of experiment. Coleridge.

fect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.

is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke.

; to take up vagabonds. (h) To admit; to believe; to receive. [Obs.] The ancients took up experiments upon credit. Bacon.

To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon.

Essay; trial; experience; experiment. Shak.

h candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. Addison. In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. Macaulay.

A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight.

Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.

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.…

vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repairs and for instruction and experiments. The principal torpedo station of the United States is at Newport, R.I.

Fit or possible to be tried; liable to be subjected to trial or test. "Experiments triable." Boyle.

Examination by a test; experiment, as in chemistry, metallurgy, etc.

One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard. Boyle.

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.

Not empirically; without experiment or experience.

qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

Of or pertaining to Valsalva, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century. Valsalvian experiment (Med.), the process of inflating the middle ear by closing the mouth and nostrils, and blowing so as to puff out the cheeks.

ts of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.