try

TRY, verb intransitive To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. [These phrases give the true sense.] TRY, verb transitive To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me. 1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold. 2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles. 3. To act upon as a test. The fire sev'n times tried this. 4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court. 5. To essay; to attempt. Let us try advent'rous work. 6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried. 7. To search carefully into. Psalms 11:4. 8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease. 9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word. To try tallow, etc. is to melt and separate it from the membranes. To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.