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Definition of Assayings

1. assaying [n] - See also: assaying

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Assayings

assaultive assaultively assaultiveness assaults assault and battery assault gun assault rifle assay assay assay-mark

assayable assayed assayer assayers assaying assayings (current term) assays asse assegaai assegaais

assegai assegaied assegaiing assegais assemblage assemblages assemblagist assemblagists assemble assembled

Literary usage of Assayings

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1. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"... between my knees down to a half-inch size and repeatedly quartering them down to a small sample for assayings to get a proper average of the ore. ..."

2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1809)
"... fierce assayings are resisted by strength, by courage, or by politic : the enemie is pursued, and the pursuers neuer giue ouer till they haue him in ..."

3. The National Preacher by Austin Dickinson (1841)
"Without this we shall not be free from those assayings of pride and creature sufficiency which tend, most of all things, to keep the Spirit of God out of ..."

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