To separate, as what is good from what is bad; separate by sifting; sift.Hence— To select; cull; pick out.To ascertain by sifting or examination.To separate (metal) from the ore or dross by melting; refine; assay.To separate or reduce by boiling or steaming; render: generally with out: as, to try out lard or blubber.To put to the test or proof; subject to experimental treatment, comparison with a standard, or the like, in order to determine the truth, accuracy, power, strength, speed, fitness, or other quality of; test; prove: as, to try weights and measures; to try a new invention; to try conclusions; to try one's patience, or one's luck.To use, apply, or practise tentatively; experiment with: as, to try a new remedy; also, to experiment upon; treat tentatively.To endeavor experimentally to find out.To experience; have knowledge of by experience.To undertake; attempt; essay.To examine judicially; bring or set before a court with evidence or argument, or both, for a final judicial determination; submit to the examination and decision or sentence of a judicial tribunal: as, to try a case; to try a prisoner.To bring to a decision; determine; settle; hence, to decide by combat.To bear hardly upon; subject to trials or suffering; afflict: as, the family has been sorely tried.To strain: as, to try the eyes.To incite to wrong; tempt; solicit.To invite; escort.In joinery, to dress with a trying-plane. See trying-plane.To attempt; undertake.To exert strength; make an effort; endeavor; attempt: as, to try for a situation.To find or show what a person or a thing is; prove by experience; make or hold a trial.Nautical, to lie to in a gale under storm-sails so as to keep a ship's bow to the sea.In angling, to fish again over a pool or stream where the fish have refused to bite before, as with a different cast of flies, from another direction with regard to the wind or sun, etc.: also used transitively: as, to try back the water.Hence— To transude, or ooze out, as sweat: as, the perspiration is trying out of him.Synonyms To seek, essay, strive.n. The act of trying; a trial; experiment; effort.n. In foot-ball, in the Rugby game, the right to carry the ball in front of the goal and try to kick a goal. When goals are equal, the game is decided by the majority of tries.n. A sieve; riddle; screen.