·vi To make a testament, or will.
II. Test ·noun A Witness.
III. Test ·noun Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
IV. Test ·noun Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
V. Test ·noun ·Alt. of Testa.
VI. Test ·vt To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
VII. Test ·noun Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
VIII. Test ·noun A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
IX. Test ·vt To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
X. Test ·noun That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
XI. Test ·noun Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
XII. Test ·vt To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to Try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an Argument.
XIII. Test ·noun A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.