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n. A short literary composition on a single subject, usually presenting the personal view of the author.

n. Something resembling such a composition: a photojournalistic essay.

n. A testing or trial of the value or nature of a thing: an essay of the students' capabilities.

n. An initial attempt or endeavor, especially a tentative attempt.

v. To make an attempt at; try.

v. To subject to a test.

n. A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.

n. A test, experiment; an assay.

n. An attempt.

v. To try.

v. To move forth, as into battle.

n. An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt.

n. A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise

n. An assay. See Assay, n.

v. To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

v. To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

n. A trial, attempt, or endeavor; an effort made; exertion of body or mind to perform or accomplish anything: as, an essay toward reform; an essay of strength.

n. An experimental trial; a test.

n. An assay or test of the qualities of a metal. See assay, n.

n. In lit., a discursive composition concerned with a particular subject, usually shorter and less methodical and finished than a treatise; a short disquisition: as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils; an essay on commerce.

n. Synonyms Struggle.

n. Treatise, dissertation, disquisition, paper, tract, tractate. See definition of treatise.

To make trial of; attempt; exert one's power or faculties upon; put to the test: as, to essay a difficult feat; to essay the courage of a braggart.

To try and test the value and purity of, as metals. Now written assay (which see).

Synonyms Undertake, Endeavor, etc. See attempt.

n. an analytic or interpretive literary composition

n. a tentative attempt

v. put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to

v. make an effort or attempt

"At its core were two pieces, the title essay and another, "The Eye Is a Part of the Mind," that offered the most sweeping argument against Greenbergian formalism."

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