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To make an attempt; to make an essay or a trial; -- used with at. "Without offering at any other remedy." Swift. He would be offering at the shepherd's voice. L'Estrange. I will not offer at that I can not master. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to trial by ordeal. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Any severe trial, or test; a painful experience. Ordeal bean. (Bot.) See Calabar bean, under Calabar. -- Ordeal root (Bot.) the root of a species of Strychnos growing in West Africa, used, like the ordeal bean, in trials for witchcraft. -- Ordeal tree (Bot.), a poisonous tree of Madagascar (Tanghinia, or Cerbera, ven…

ert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.

A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles from the Permian formation.

Trial; experiment. [Obs.]

rounded body, with the head concealed beneath the thorax. -- Pill bug (Zoöl.), any terrestrial isopod of the genus Armadillo, having the habit of rolling itself into a ball when disturbed. Called also pill wood louse.

a. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

larity, and Polar, n. Magnetic pole. See under Magnetic. -- Poles of the earth, or Terrestrial poles (Geog.), the two opposite points on the earth's surface through which its axis passes. -- Poles of the heavens, or Celestial poles, the two opposite points in the celestial sphere which coincide with the earth's axis…

ecial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.

A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position (Astron.), the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes with another fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination. -- Double position (Arith.), the method of solving problems b…

An instrument for measuring or comparing electrial potentials or electro-motive forces.

Fitted for trial beforehand; experimental. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

Proof; trial. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ng designed to ascertain truth, to determine character, qualification, etc.; examination; trial; as, to engage a person on probation. Hence, specifically: (a) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. (b) The trial of a ministerial ca…

Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial. To consider this life . . . as a probationary state. Paley.

One who is undergoing probation; one who is on trial; a novice. While yet a young probationer, And candidate of heaven. Dryden.

Serving for trial or proof; probationary; as, probative judgments; probative evidence. South.

Serving for trial; probationary. Abp. Bramhall.