to try

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To purify; to refine.--Johnson. Webster. A common use of this word in the United States, and the only one connected with purifying, is in connection with tallow: 'To try out tallow or lard,' is to melt it down, for the purpose of purifying. It is provincial in England in the same sense.--Forby. Halliwell.

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