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A witness.

A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.] The shields bright, testers, and trappures. Chaucer.

A sixpence; a tester. [Obs.]

pl. of Teste, or of Testis.

One who attests.

One who detes

A fruiteress. [Obs.]

Not contested. Addison.

One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration. Shak.

A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. [Prov. Eng.]

Tested purity or value. [Obs.] With gold and pearl of rich assay. Spenser.

be true or genuine; as, to attest the truth of a writing, a copy of record. Facts . . . attested by particular pagan authors. Addison.

Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.

exes; hermaphrodite; as a flower with stamens and pistil, or an animal having ovaries and testes.

Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction (Eng. Eccl. Law), jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed or controverted.

ntend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute. The people . . . contested not what was done. Locke. Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequenty repeated, few more contested than this. J. D. Morell.

Capable of being contested; debatable.

se which have been compared with the originals. -- Exemplified copies, those which are attested under seal of a court. -- Certified or Office copies, those which are made or attested by officers having charge of the originals, and authorized to give copies officially. Abbot.

The well-browned, crisp rind of roasted pork. For the first time in his life he tested crackling. Lamb.

In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously. [Low]