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Definition of Assay master

Assay master
Assay As*say", n. [OF. asai, essai, trial, F. essa. See Essay, n.] 1. Trial; attempt; essay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. --Milton. 2. Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] This can not be, by no assay of reason. --Shak. 3. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. --Spenser. 4. Tested purity or value. [Obs.] With gold and pearl of rich assay. --Spenser. 5. (Metallurgy) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin. 6. The alloy or metal to be assayed. --Ure. Usage: Assay and essay are radically the same word; but modern usage has appropriated assay chiefly to experiments in metallurgy, and essay to intellectual and bodily efforts. See Essay. Note: Assay is used adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, assay balance, assay furnace. Assay master, an officer who assays or tests gold or silver coin or bullion. Assay ton, a weight of 29,1662/3 grams.

Meaning of Assay master from wikipedia

- metallurgy, meteorology apart from pursuing his career in India as an ****ay master at the mint in Benares. James Prinsep was the seventh son and the tenth...
- by an ****ay office (****ay mark). Hallmarks are a guarantee of certain purity or fineness of the metal, as determined by official metal (****ay) testing...
- was constructed by the Amethi royal family. James Prinsep, who was an ****ay master at the Banaras Mint from 1820 to 1830, created a series of drawings,...
- craft, ****a**** and marked the members' wares, but in 1681 a separate ****ay Master was appointed to oversee this task. The first ****ay Master was John...
- The MTT ****ay is a colorimetric ****ay for ****essing cell metabolic activity. NAD(P)H-dependent cellular oxidoreductase enzymes may, under defined conditions...
- commissioner in the Spanish Netherlands, a government advisor on trade matters, ****ay master of the mint, and commissioner of mint affairs. His dates of birth and...
- numismatics, archaeology and mineral resources, while fulfilling the role of ****ay Master of the East India Company mint in East Bengal (Kolkata). It was his interest...
- Humphreys) (c.1515–1579) was an English goldsmith, mining promoter, and ****ay Master at the Royal Mint during the reign of Elizabeth I. Little is known of...
- constructed near Sagar, India during 1828–1830 by Duncan Presgrave, Mint and ****ay Master. The Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed in 1831, completed in 1864 with...
- Wisselbank was also active in the production of coins. For decades the ****ay master of the Bank sent out stocks of gold and silver to the various Mints in...