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Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or
discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial. |
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That degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any
truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments that
induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive
evidence; demonstration. |
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The quality or state of having been proved or tried;
firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to
force; impenetrability of physical bodies. |
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Firmness of mind; stability not to be shaken. |
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A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or
examination; -- called also proof sheet. |
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A process for testing the accuracy of an operation
performed. Cf. Prove, v. t., 5. |
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Armor of excellent or tried quality, and deemed
impenetrable; properly, armor of proof. |
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Used in proving or testing; as, a proof load, or proof
charge. |
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Firm or successful in resisting; as, proof against harm;
waterproof; bombproof. |
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Being of a certain standard as to strength; -- said of
alcoholic liquors. |
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