·noun Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken.
II. Proof ·adj Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof charge.
III. Proof ·adj Being of a certain standard as to strength;
— said of alcoholic liquors.
IV. Proof ·adj Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm; waterproof; bombproof.
V. Proof ·noun A process for testing the accuracy of an operation performed. ·cf. Prove, ·vt, 5.
VI. Proof ·vt Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed impenetrable; properly, armor of proof.
VII. Proof ·noun A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination;
— called also proof sheet.
VIII. Proof ·noun Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
IX. Proof ·noun The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
X. Proof ·noun That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.