"try titles" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tries titles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "try titles"
      },
      "expansion": "try titles (third-person singular simple present tries titles, present participle trying titles, simple past and past participle tried titles)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450",
          "text": "Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4:",
          "text": "If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To battle."
      ],
      "id": "en-try_titles-en-verb-PlNOe3uH",
      "links": [
        [
          "battle",
          "battle#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) To battle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "6 94",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "5 95",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "en:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Violence",
          "orig": "en:Violence",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office."
      ],
      "id": "en-try_titles-en-verb-7BTEPXfl",
      "links": [
        [
          "litigate",
          "litigate"
        ],
        [
          "real estate",
          "real estate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "try titles"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English predicates",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Law",
    "en:Violence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tries titles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "trying titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tried titles",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "try titles"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1839, Benjamin Eggleston, The Wars of America (Hazard & Bloomer), page 450",
          "text": "Gen. Greene, having received all the reinforcements he expected, instantly prepared to try titles for victory, with his lordship, at the point of a bayonet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914 August 15, “Why The Governor Is Not In”, in Nashua Telegraph, http://nashua.advantage-preservation.com/Viewer/DownloadPDFFile?PubDateId=13692491 page 4:",
          "text": "If it could have been made to appear that his only motive was to save the Democratic party from the Hollis and Stevens radicalism, he might have been persuaded to try titles with these gentlemen.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To battle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "battle",
          "battle#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) To battle."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To litigate a claim to property (most often real estate) or a public office."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "litigate",
          "litigate"
        ],
        [
          "real estate",
          "real estate"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "try titles"
}