try 
But try with me, whether Heav'na bridle will 
Not curb your l-ady's fierce carter t<> ln-11. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, II. 100. 
O make me try, 
By sleeping, what it in to <li<-. 
fiir T. ISn,i;i,; Itrliilii. M.-.lii'l, II. 12. 
He tried the effect of fmM n* ami nu.-naces. Frowns .UH! 
mOKOM tUUd, Macaulay, Hint. F.TIK., vii. 
7. To experience; have knowledge of by ex- 
perience. 
Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold. l>ryden. 
8. To undertake; attempt; essay. 
Let us ' > >< advent'ruus work. Milton, P. L., x. 264. 
I'll couch me here till evening gray, 
Then darkling In/ my dangerous way. 
Hrit, L. of the L., Iv. 28. 
9. To examine judicially; bring or set before 
a court with evidence or argument, or both, for 
a final judicial determination ; submit to the 
examination and decision or sentence of a judi- 
cial tribunal : as, to try a case ; to try a pris- 
oner. The word is used In law with reference to the is- 
sues raised by the pleadings, not with reference to motions 
and other interlocutory questions. 
I do not deny, 
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May in the sworn twelve nave a thief or two 
nulltler than him they try. 
Shale.. M. for M., ii. 1. 21. 
Why, he was tried at York for stealing a coral and bells 
from the Mayoress's baby. 
D. Jerrold, Men of Character, Job I'ippins, v. 
10. To bring to a decision ; determine ; settle : 
hence, to decide by combat. 
Nlcanor . . . durst not try the matter by the sword. 
2 Mac. xiv. 18. 
That's a question : how shall we try it? 
Shot., C. of E., v. 1. 421. 
The quarrel shall soon be try'd. 
Robin Hood and the Stranger (Child's Ballads, V. 415). 
11. To bear hardly upon; subject to trials or 
suffering; afflict: as, the family has been sore- 
ly tried. 12. To strain: as, to try the eyes. 
13. To incite to wrong; tempt; solicit. 
In part she is to blame that has been try'd ; 
He comes too near, that eomes to be deny'd. 
Lady M. W. Montagu, The Lady's Resolve. 
14f. To invite; escort. 
Thane gerte he in his awene tente a table be sette, 
And tryede in with tromppez traraillede blernec; 
Scrfede them solempnely with selkouthe metez. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.X 1. 148. 
15. In joinery, to dress with a trying-plane. 
See tn/hifi-plaiie To try a fall 8ee/oi.-To try 
conclusions with a person. See conclusion. To try 
it on the other leg. See ley -To try on. (a) To put 
on, as a garment, iu order to test the fit, etc. 
The daughters only tore two pair of kid-leather gloves, 
with trying 'em on. Conyreoe, Old Bachelor, iv. 8. 
(b) To attempt; undertake. [Slang.) 
It wouldn't do to try it on there. Dickens. 
To try one's hand, one's lungs, etc. See the nouns. 
II. intraiis. 1. To exert strength; make an 
effort; endeavor; attempt : as, to try for a situ- 
ation. 
If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again. 
Old tang. 
2. To And or show what a person or a t 
is; prove by experience ; make or hold a trial. 
Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such of- 
fenders, and let Time try. Shak. , As you Like it, iv. 1. 204. 
3f. ffaut., to lie to in a gale under storm-sails so 
as to keep a ship's bow to the sea. 
Down with the topmast: yare! lower, lower! Bring 
her to try with main course. Shak., Tempest, I. 1. 37. 
When the barke had way, we cut the hawser, and so gate 
the sen to our friend, and tryed out al that day with our 
maine corse. IIakluyt'8 Voyayes, I. 277. 
To try back, (a) To go back, as in search of a road that 
one haa missed ; revert* as in conversation, in order to re- 
cover some point that one has missed; hark back. 
She was marvellously quick to discover that she was 
astray and try bade. Lever, Davenport Dunn, xi. 
The leading hounds . . . are trying back. 
T. Hughe*, Tom Brown at Rugby, L 7. 
Would it not l>e well then to try back ? to bear in mind, 
as the first and most fundamental truth of all, that meat 
is suitable for grown men, that milk is suitable for babes? 
Nineteenth Century, XXII. 812. 
(ft) In angling, to fish again over a pool or stream where 
the fish have refused to bite before, as with a different 
cast of flies, from another direction with regard to the 
wind or sun, et<\ : also used transitively: as, to try back 
the water. To try out. (a) To separate, as fat or grease 
from a substance roasted, boiled, or steamed : as, the 
grease trie* out of ham in cooking. Hence (6) To Iran 
sudc, or ooze out, as sweat: as. the perspiration is trying 
out of him. [Low, New Eng. ] Trying UP, in ' 
the operation of taking off a. sli:ivin extending the entire 
length of the stnif. Trying-up machine, a planing- 
Miiirhine used for trying up scantling. = 8yn. 1. To seek, 
t-s-:i\ . strive. 
try (tri), n. [< try, r.] 1. The act of trying; 
a trial: experiment; effort. 
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This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends. 
Shak.. T. of A.. V. I. II. 
Don't give It up yet ; ... let's have a try for him. 
Mn. Gatkell, Mary Barton, xxvil. 
The rock lies within a few feet of the surface, and any 
buildings that may have existed upon it have totally dis- 
appeared. A fresh try was made for tombs In a large field 
to the north of the same road. 
Amer. Jour. Archaol., VL 858. 
2. In foot-ball, in the liugby game, the right 
to carry the ball in front of tne goal and try to 
kick a goal. When goals are equal, the game 
is decided by the majority of tries. 3. A sieve ; 
riddle; screen. [Prov. Eng.] 
They will not pass through the holes of the sieve, rud- 
die, or try, if they be narrow. 
Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 86. (Trench.) 
tryable, . See triable. 
try-cock (tri'kok), M. A gage-cock, 
tryet, '' An obsolete spelling of try. 
tryet, [< ME. trie, tryt; < OF. trie, pp. of trier, 
pick, choose: see try, r.] Choice; select; ap- 
proved; excellent. 
Sugre that Is so trye. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, L 14S. 
Those hands of gold, 
And eke her feete, those feete of silver tnje. 
Spenter.Tt. Q., V. ii. 26. 
tryedt, " An obsolete spelling of tried. 
Trygon 1 (tri'gon), M. [NL.(Geoffroy St. Hilaire, 
1809, from Adanson's manuscript), < L. trygon. 
< Gr. Tpvyfav, a sting-ray: said to be so named 
from the expansive pectoral fins, likened to a 
dove's wings; a transferred use of rpvyuv, a 
dove. Compare similar use of angel-fish, and 
see Trygon?.] In iehth., a genus of rays, giv- 
ing name to the family Trygonidte ; the sting- 
rays, having the long slender lash-like tail 
armed with a strong serrated spine near the 
base. These rays attain a large size and abound in warm 
seas. The genus is also called Dasybatiut (\\a\\tAtim, 1793\ 
a name varying to Dasyati* (Rafinesque, 1810), Dwrtbatix 
(Garman), and Dasybatig (Jordan). See cut under fling-ray. 
Trygon 2 (tri'gon), n. [NL., < Gr. rpi^wv, a 
dove.] In ornith., a monotypic genus of Papuan 
pigeons, based by Hombron and Jacquinot in 
1846 (in the form Trugon) upon T. terreslrix, and 
subsequently variously applied. 
Trygonidae (tri-gpn'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Trygon 
+ -Mse. ] A family of batoia elasmobrauchiate 
fishes, whose typical genus is Trygon; the 
sting-rays. The tail is armed with a sharp serrated 
spine or spines capable of inflicting a severe wound. 
The genera are about 10 and the species 50 in number : 
they are ovovlviparous, and found in most warm seas, 
some of them reaching comparatively high latitudes, and 
others inhabiting fresh waters of Central and South Amer- 
ica. The family is also called Dasybatida. See Trygon, 
and cut under tting-ray. 
try-house (tri'hous), . A building or shed in 
which oil is extracted from blubber, or in which 
lard or the like is rendered. 
trying (tri'ing),p. a. [Ppr. of try, .] Of a 
kind to test severely or thoroughly ; difficult; 
severe: as, a trying ordeal; trying circum- 
stances; a color trying to one's complexion. 
He was restless as well as idle, a combination which is 
more trying to the peace of your housemates than any 
other can be. Mrs. Oliphant, Poor Gentleman, I. 
Lg-plane (tri'ing-plan), w. In joinery, a 
plane, used after the jack-plane, for taking off 
a shaving the whole length of the stuff, which 
operation is called trying tip. See plane 2 . 
trying-square (tri'ing-skwar), n. Same as try- 
square. E. S. Knight. 
tryma (tri'mg,), n.; pi. tryniata (-ma-tft). [NL., 
< Gr. Tpvfta, Tpi'/iq, a hole, < rpvttv, rub.] In 
bot., a drupe or drupaceous nut with a fleshy 
exocarp which is at length dehiscent or other- 
wise, as in the walnut and hickory-nut, it may 
be accurately defined as a one-seeded fruit with a well-de- 
flned stony endocarp, and with the outer part of the peri- 
carp fleshy, leathery, or fibrous ; it is distinguished from 
the drupe by being derived from an Inferior instead of a 
superior ovary. 
try-pot 
trynet, - An M spelling of trim'- 1 . 
Tryngites(trin-j!'te/. i, /i. (Nl.. (r : ii, ;m i>. 1856), 
< (Jr. liinl so culli-il lp\ Aristotle, a 
s;nnl]>iper. + -ili-x. ('(. Tringn."] A genus of 
small tattlers, of the family .sv////-Wa' ; the 
marble-winged :iinl]iipern. They resemble true 
sandpipers very closely, but are totanf ne, not trlngine ; the 
bill Is short and extremely slender; the toe> are cleft to 
the baae, or with a mere trace of webbing : the tail Is not 
barred, and the flight-feathers have a peculiar tracery, like 
the veiuing of marble, of black on a pearly-white ground. 
T. ritfaetHt (or mbrujtniUii) Is the butt-breasted sand- 
piper of both Americas, very wide-ranging, and breeding 
in high latitudes; It Is about 8 inches long and 16 In ex- 
tent of wings. This bird is a near relative of Bart ram > 
sandpiper among North American forms, and Is still more 
closely related to certain Polynesian sandpipers. See cut 
in preceding column. 
Trypanosoma (trii>"!i-no-s6'ma). n. [< Gr. rpi-- 
Tramv, a borer, T au/ui, body .] A genus of flagel- 
late infnsorians, typical of the family Trypano- 
xomiitiilu'. T. sanijuinii. also called I'luln/iim 
ranarum, occurs in the blood of amphibians. 
Trypanosomata (trip'a-no-so'ma-ta), n. pi. 
[NIj., neut. pi. of triijiiiiiiisniiiitttix : see trypano- 
mimittoiis.] An order of infusorial animalcules, 
formed for the reception of the Trypanoito- 
HHitiilie (which see). 
Trypanosomatidae (trip'a-no-so-mat'i-de), n. 
M. [XL., < TrypanoHoniata -t- -idte.] The only 
family of Tri/ixtnoxomata. These animals are free- 
swimming, of compressed form, with one side produced as 
a thin undulating frill, the anterior end sometimes with a 
flagellate appendage, but without distinct oral aperture. 
trypanosomatous (trip'a-no-som'a-tus), . 
[< NL. trypanosomatus, < Gr. rpiVavov, a borer, 
auger (see trepan' 1 ), + o>//n, body.] Of or per- 
taining to the Trypanoxoniata. 
Trypanostoma (trip-a-nos'to-mft), n. [NL., 
< Gr. rpi'travov, a borer, + <rr6/ta, mouth.] A 
genus of univalves : same as Pteurocera. 
Trypeta(tri-pe'ta), . [NL.(Meigen, 1803),<Gr. 
Tpvm/Tqt;, a borer, < rpvirav, bore: see trepan^.] 
A notable genus of flies, typical of the family 
Trypetidie, of medium size, and yellowish-gray 
or greenish-yellow in color, with banded, spot- 
ted, or clear wings. It Is a large and wide-spread ge- 
nus, the species of which mainly breed in the flower-heads 
of composite plants, often making gall-like deformations. 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper ( Tryngitts rn/txeru). 
Apple-maggot ( Try f eta fomtmella) and Fly, enlarged four times. 
The larva of T. pomonetla is the common apple-maggot 
or railroad-worm of the I'nited States ; it often does great 
damage to the apple-crop, particularly in the northeastern 
States. T. ludem in the larval state bores into oranges to 
Mexico. About 25 species occur in Europe, while more 
than 80 are known in North America. The genus has 
l>een divided into a large number of subgenera. 
Trypethelium (irip-e-the'li-um), H. [NL., < 
Gr. rpvrrav, bore, 4- Qif/ri, nipple.] A genus 
of veirucariaceous lichens, having immersed 
apothecia and ellipsoidal (usually four-celled) 
spores. About 30 species are known, mostly 
of intertropical regions, there being but 3 in 
North America. 
Trypetidae (tri-pet'i-de), . pi. [NL. (Loew, 
1862), < TrypcUi + -tVf>.] A family of acalyp- 
trate flies, typified by the genus Trypeta. They 
have the neuration complete, the front on each side with 
two rows of liristK-R, the border of the month with no vi- 
brissa 1 , and only the middle tibia? spurred. The ovipositor 
is horny, consisting of three elongated retractile segments, 
the last of which ends in a simple point. See cut under 
Trypeia. 
typographic (trip-o-g^af'ik), a. [< Gr. rpyvm; 
bore, perforate, T ypae/tiv, write.] Pertaining 
to or produced by tryjiographic printing: as, a 
triijioiiriijiliii' stencil, circular, or letter Trypo- 
graphic printing, a method of printing by the use of 
paper stencils in which the stencils are formed by placing 
the paper sheets on a flat steel surface, uniformly cut after 
the manner of a file, and writing upon them with a stylus. 
The paper is thus minutely perforated under the marks 
made by the stylus. The stencils are used in the sume 
way as ordinary stencils for reproducing the written text. 
try-pot (tri'pot), ii. In irhaling, the vessel in 
which blubber is tried out. 
