This breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.
Shak.
Try cock, a gauge cock. See under Gauge.
Try, a. [Cf. Try, v. t.] Refined; select; excellent; choice. [Obs.]
"Sugar that is try." Chaucer.
||Try"gon (tr"gn), n. [L., a sting ray, from Gr.&?; a kind of fish with
||a prickle in the tail.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of large
||sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
||
Try"ing, a. Adapted to try, or put to severe trial; severe; afflictive;
as, a trying occasion or position.
Tryp"sin (?), n. [Cr. &?; a rubbing, fr. &?; to rub, grind. So called
because it causes proteid matter to break up or to fall apart.]
(physiol.) A proteolytic ferment, or enzyme, present in the pancreatic
juice. Unlike the pepsin of the gastric juice, it acts in a neutral or
alkaline fluid, and not only converts the albuminous matter of the food
into soluble peptones, but also, in part, into leucin and tyrosin.
Tryp*sin"o*gen (?), n. [Trypsin + - gen.] (Physiol.) The antecedent of
trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas
and gives rise to the trypsin.
Tryp"tic (?), a. (Physiol.) Relating to trypsin or to its action;
produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
Tryp"tone (?), n. (Physiol. Chem.) The peptone formed by pancreatic
digestion; — so called because it is formed through the agency of the
ferment trypsin.
Try"sail (?), n. (Naut.) A fore- and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and
hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast,
close abaft a lower mast; — used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also
spencer. Totten.
Try"-square` (?), n. An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc.,
for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work
is square.
Tryst (?), n. [OE. trist, tryst, a variant of trust; cf. Icel. treysta
to make trusty, fr. traust confidence, security. See Trust, n.] 1.
Trust. [Obs.]
2. An appointment to meet; also, an appointed place or time of meeting;
as, to keep tryst; to break tryst. [Scot. or Poetic]
To bide tryst, to wait, at the appointed time, for one with whom a
tryst or engagement is made; to keep an engagement or appointment.
The tenderest-hearted maid That ever bided tryst at village stile.
Tennyson.