Try

trī, v.t. to put to the test or proof: to sift: to prove by experiment: to purify: to examine judiciously: to determine, settle: to examine carefully or experimentally: to experience: to attempt: to use as means: to put to severe trial, cause suffering to: to bring to a decision, to settle.— v.i. to endeavour: to make an effort: ( Shak. ) to prove by experience: ( obs. ) to keep a ship's bows to the sea during a gale:— pa.t. and pa.p. tried (trīd).— n. a trial: effort: in Rugby football, the score of three points gained by a player who succeeds in placing the ball with his hand over the enemy's line.— adj. Tried , proved, experienced.— n. Trī′er .— adjs. Try′able , Trī′able , capable of being tried; Trye ( Spens. ), proved excellent.— n. Try′-house , a place in which oil is extracted from blubber, .— adj. Try′ing , making trial or proof of: adapted to try: searching: severe.— Try on , to put on for trial, as a garment: to attempt; Try back , to revert, hark back. [O. Fr. trier , to pick out, to cull (the grain from the straw), from an a umed L. tritare — terĕre , tritum , to rub.]