assayer

How To Use assayer In A Sentence

• [Footnote: The simple Sayer is also for "assayer," either of metals or of meat and drink -- "essayeur, an essayer; one that tasts, or takes an essay; and particularly, an officer in the mint, who touches every kind of new Coyne before it be delivered out" (Cotgrave). The Romance of Names
• After studying chemistry at University College, London, and working as an assayer in Australia, he returned to University College in 1859 to study political economy, philosophy, and mathematics.
• But this afternoon while the assayer was dragging you out of the prospect hole, and I was watching through your field glasses, I happened to turn them in the direction of the pesthouse, and there he was again, humped up on the doorsill, watching through glasses of his own. Tabitha's Vacation
• The silver used for inquartation must, of course, be free from gold and is best prepared by the assayer who is to use it (see p. 66). A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
• According to our shopper, the assayer would make up a tray of aged bone-ash, magnesium or cement cupels into which crushed ore along with a button of lead was added.
• It is assumed that the dry ore of the sampler and of the assayer are the same thing; according to the nature of the ore, this may or may not be the case. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
• Their instructions were to give the money to the assayer, who was expected, by prearrangement, to double the amount of ore recorded from that load. Yellow Dirt
• He concludes that ‘When silver was to be reused, a certain amount was given to the assayer in advance.’
• Lumps of pure silver bearing the stamp of a banker or an assayer and formerly used in China as money.
• But now the assayer came up, bringing with him a nice elaborate calculation on a black slate, showing exactly how much pure gold Onucz had handed in to the coining department, how much it would be worth when coined and deducting three per cent for expenses, how much he was to receive in cash by way of exchange. The Poor Plutocrats