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sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from the good. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing.

An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive; as, a trying occasion or position.

A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.

The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.

Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.

An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting; as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic] To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment. The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stil…

One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

An appointment; a tryst. Trysting day, an arranged day of meeting or assembling, as of soldiers, friends, and the like. And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth East and west and south and north, To summon his array. Macaulay. -- Trysting place, a place designated for the assembling of soldiers, the…

The act or method of ascertaining the strength of vinegar, or the proportion of acetic acid contained in it. Ure.

The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

The measuring of the power or extent of hearing.

Chemistry in its relations to actinism. Draper.

The measurement of the force of solar radiation. Maury.

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.