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Definition of Assayers
1. assayer [n] - See also: assayer
Literary usage of Assayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"At the end of that time he formed a copartnership with George K. Davis, "the firm
being George K. Davis & Co., gold and silver refiners, assayers, ..."
2. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for ...by Vladimir Karapetoff by Vladimir Karapetoff (1911)
"(Fifth Edition, Rewritten) 8vo, 5 00 * Qualitative Chemical Analysis 8vo, 1 25 *
Seamon's Manual for assayers and Chemists Large 12mo, 2 50 Smith's Lecture ..."
3. The Land of the Pueblos by Susan Elston Wallace (1888)
"CHAPTER XX THE assayers. A CERTAIN room in El Palacio is assaying the precious ore?.
It? bi jy.vc-stained niters :«»k as th-xr^h ±;y rr u. ..."
4. Railway Station Serviceby Benjamin Chapman Burt by Benjamin Chapman Burt (1911)
"(Fifth Edition, Rewritten) 8vo, 5 00 * Qualitative Chemical Analysis 8vo, 1 25 *
Seamon's Manual for assayers and Chemists Large ..."
5. American Medical Gazette and Journal of Health (1861)
"The Duties of State assayers in relation to Quack Medicines. The newspapers are
constantly ... or beneficial effects are certified to by State assayers. ..."
6. The Goldsmith's Handbook, Containing Full Instructions for the Alloying and by George Edward Gee (1892)
"assayers' Weight. A carat is not an absolute weight as regards gold, but is merely
the twenty-fourth part of a unit; whether that unit constitutes pound, ..."
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