test2 (test)

[Early mod. E. teste; Then was the teste or potsherd, the bra e, golde, & syluer redacte into duste. Joye, Expos, of Daniel, ii. 2. In zoöl . , the hard covering of certain animals; a shell; a lorica. Tests are of various textures and substances, generally either chitinous, calcareous, or silicious, sometimes membranous or fibrous. See shell , 2, and skeleton , 1. Specifically - ( a ) The outermost case or covering of the ascidians, or Tunic at a . It is homologous with the house of the appendicularian tunicates, and is remarkable among animal structures in that it is im pregnated with a kind of cellulose called tunicin. See cuts under Salpa and cyathozoöid. (b) The shell of a testaceous mollusk; an ordinary shell, as of the oyster, clam, or snail. (c) The hard crust or integument of any arthropod, as a crustacean or an insect. ( d ) The hard calcareous shell of an echinoderm, as a sea-urchin. (e) The shell of any foraminifer. (f) The lorica or case of an infusorian. 3. In bot., same as testa, 2. test3+ (test), n. [ Prelates and great lordes of England, who were testes of that dede. Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. cci. IMG:content-0142.jpg:[graphic] 2. Testimony; evidence. To vouch this is no proof, Without more wider and more overt test . Shak ., Othello, i. 3. 107. test