Webster's Dictionary 1913

5428

Try (2)

Try (?), v. i. 1. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn.2. To do; to fare; as, how do you try!

5429

Try (3)

Try, n. 1. A screen, or sieve, for grain. Holland.2. Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends. Shak.Try cock, a gauge co...

5430

Try (4)

Try, a. [Cf. Try, v. t.] Refined; select; excellent; choice. “Sugar that is try.” Chaucer.

5431

Try (5)

Try, n. In Rugby and Northern Union football, a score (counting three points) made by grounding the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line; — so called because it entitles t...

5432

Try cock

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

5433

Try-square

Try″–square′ (?), n. An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

5434

Trygon

‖Try″gon (trī″gŏn), n.(Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.

5435

Trying

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

5436

Tryout

Try″out (?), n.(Sports) A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

5437

Trypsin

Tryp″sin (?), n.(physiol.) 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...

5438

Trypsinogen

Tryp‐sin″o‐gen (?), n. [Trypsin + -gen.] (Physiol.) The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.

5439

Tryptic

Tryp″tic (?), a.(Physiol.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.

5440

Tryptone

Tryp″tone (?), n.(Physiol. Chem.) The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; — so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.

5441

Trysail

Try″sail (?), n.(Naut.) A fore-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...

5442

Tryst

Tryst (?), n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.] 1. Trust.2. An appointment to meet; also, ...

5443

Tryst (2)

Tryst, v. t. [OE. tristen, trysten. See Tryst, n.]1. To trust.2. To agree with to meet at a certain place; to make an appointment with. Burns.

5444

Tryst (3)

Tryst, v. i. To mutually agree to meet at a certain place.

5445

Tryster

Tryst″er (?), n. One who makes an appointment, or tryst; one who meets with another.

5446

Trysting

Tryst″ing, n. 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 messeng...

5447

Tsar

Tsar (?), n. The title of the emperor of Russia. See Czar.

5448

Tsarina

{ Tsa‐ri″na (?), Tsa‐rit″sa (?), } n. [Russ. tsaritsa. Cf. Czarina.] The title of the empress of Russia. See Czarina.

5449

Tschakmeck

‖Tschak‐meck″ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The chameck.

5450

Tschego

‖Tsche″go (?), n.(Zoöl.) A West African anthropoid ape allied to the gorilla and chimpanzee, and by some considered only a variety of the chimpanzee. It is noted for building la...

5451

Tsebe

Tse″be (?), n.(Zoöl.) The springbok.

5452

Tsetse

Tset″se, n.(Zoöl.) A venomous two-winged African fly (Glossina morsitans) whose bite is very poisonous, and even fatal, to horses and cattle, but harmless to men. It renders ext...

5453

Tsung tu

‖Tsung″ tu′ (?). A viceroy or governor-general, the highest provincial official in China, with civil and military authority over one or more provinces.

5454

Tsung-li Yamen

‖Tsung″–li Ya″men (?). [Written also Tsung-li-Yamen or Tsungli Yamen.] The board or department of foreign affairs in the Chinese government. See Yamen.