See assay on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill, The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977, page 351:",
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"ref": "1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Ægloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:",
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to attempt, to try",
"word": "cəhd etmək"
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "to attempt, to try",
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "правя анализ"
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "contrastar"
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "analyzovat"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "analysoida"
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "analyser"
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
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"sense": "to analyze (a metal, compound)",
"word": "measúnaigh"
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