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A challenge, trial.

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

(academia) An examination, given often during the academic term.

A session in which a product, piece of equipment, or system is examined under everyday or extreme conditions to evaluate its durability, etc.

(cricket) A Test match.

(marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm, e.g. sand dollars and sea urchins.[[Image:Sea urchin tests.jpg|thumb|right|Two sea urchin tests]]

(botany) Testa; seed coat.

(obsolete) Judgment; distinction; discrimination.

To challenge.

To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation.

To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try.

(academics) To administer or assign an examination, often given during the academic term, to (somebody).

To place a product or piece of equipment under everyday and/or extreme conditions and examine it for its durability, etc.

To be shown to be by test.

(chemistry) To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent.

(obsolete) A witness.

(obsolete) To attest (a document) legally, and date it.

(obsolete) To make a testament, or will.

(informal, slang, body building) Testosterone.