try

verb intransitive

To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load.

try

verb transitive

To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment. Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

try

To experience; to have knowledge by experience of. Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

try

To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one’s opinions by the divine oracles.

try

To act upon as a test. The fire sev’n times tried this.

try

To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

try

To essay; to attempt. Let us try advent’rous work.

try

To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

try

To search carefully into. Psalm 11:4.

try

To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

try

To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word. To try tallowis to melt and separate it from the membranes. To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.