1 - An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
2 - The degree of evidence which convinces the mind of any truth or fact, and produces belief; a test by facts or arguments which induce, or tend to induce, certainty of the judgment; conclusive evidence; demonstration.
3 - The quality or state of having been proved or tried; firmness or hardness which resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.
1 - To proofread.
2 - To make resistant, especially to water.
3 - To allow yeast-containing dough to rise.
1 - Used in proving or testing.
2 - Firm or successful in resisting.
3 - (of alcoholic liquors) Being of a certain standard as to alcohol content.
