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To attempt; to undertake. All that offer to defend him. Shak.

The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance. The counterpoise of so great an opposition. Shak. Virtue which breaks through all opposition. Milton.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass.

Fitted for trail or test; experimental; tentative; treating of attempts.

God that performeth all things for me. Ps. lvii. 2. Great force to perform what they did attempt. Sir P. Sidney.

A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.

a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

m, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for…

A rendering plebeian; the act of vulgarizing. [R.] You begin with the attempt to popularize learning . . . but you will end in the plebification of knowledge. Coleridge.

o ascertain the depth, quality, dimension, etc.; to sound; to fathom; to test. He did not attempt to plumb his intellect. Ld. Lytton.

ng and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements…

Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous `Hush!'" Mrs. Browning. -- Pre*cip"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Pre*cip"i*tous*ness, n.

To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.] Such as shall pretend Malicious practices against his state. Shak.

To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake. [R.] Milton.

rse, or metrical composition. I speak in prose, and let him rymes make. Chaucer. Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry, that is; prose -- words in their best order; poetry -- the best order. Coleridge.…

To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly. Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. Shak. He put forth his hand . . . and pulled her in. Gen. viii. 9.

he side which has made a touchdown to one of his own side for a fair catch, from which an attempt to kick a goal may be made.

The king's messenger; a state messenger. One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered. Macaulay.