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Proved; tested; faithful; trustworthy; as, a tried friend.

See Trihedral.

apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

Resort to physical means; recourse. Every milder method is to be tried, before a nation makes an appeal to arms. Kent.

e like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

ury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried. Bouvier.

Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.

Cleon at first . . . was willing to go; but, finding that he [Nicias] was in earnest, he tried to back out. Jowett (Thucyd. )

Tried; practiced. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

A woman newly married, or about to be married. Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lyttleton. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. Rev. xxi. 9.

named originally because his jurisdiction extended to the cases of soldiers, who are now tried only by their own officers.

Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence. He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. London Times.

point in dispute; as, when the issue is whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

pproved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

extreme recklessness; reckless fury. In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords. W. Irving.

y reasons or motives; -- with from; as, I could not dissuade him from his purpose. I have tried what is possible to dissuade him. Mad. D' Arblay.

; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for."To distinguish themselves by means never tried before." Johnson.