test spoon

A small spoon used for taking up Dryden: Hind and Panther, iii. 830. small quantities of powders, fluxes, . Used in blow-pipe or chemical experiments. The handle may be used as a spatula *8. Judgment, discrimination, distinction. "Who could excel, when few can make a test Betwixt indifferent writing and the best?" Dryden. ( Todd .) 9. An apparatus for proving petroleum and simi lar hydrocarbon oils by ascertaining the temperature at which they evolve explosive vapors. II. Technically: [TESTA.]