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KJV Dictionary Definition: try

try

TRY, v.i. To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort; to attempt. Try to learn; try to lift a weight. The horses tried to draw the load. These phrases give the true sense.

TRY, v.t. To examine; to make experiment on; to prove by experiment.

Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.

1. To experience; to have knowledge by experience of.

Or try the Libyan heat, or Scythian cold.

2. To prove by a test; as, to try weights and measures by a standard; to try one's opinions by the divine oracles.

3. To act upon as a test.

The fire sev'n times tried this.

4. To examine judicially by witnesses and the principles of law; as causes tried in court.

5. To essay; to attempt.

Let us try advent'rous work.

6. To purify; to refine; as silver seven times tried.

7. To search carefully into. Ps.11.

8. To use as means; as, to try remedies for a disease.

9. To strain; as, to try the eyes; the literal sense of the word.

To try tallow, &c. is to melt and separate it from the membranes.

To tryout, to pursue efforts till a decision is obtained.

trying

TRY'ING, ppr. Exerting strength; attempting.

1. Examining by searching or comparison with a test; proving; using; straining, &c.

2. a. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial.