Verb

(en-verb)

To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}

(label) To divide; to separate.

# To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.

#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:

euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride .

# (label) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out .

To test, to work out.

# To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.

# To put to test.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

#* 1922 , , Miss Mapp , :

“So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”

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, title= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

# To taste, sample, etc.

# To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Let the end try the man.

# To put on trial.

#* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I

The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

To experiment, to strive.

# To have or gain knowledge of by experience.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.

(Milton)

# To work on something.

# (label) To do; to fare.

# To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.

#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried .

(label) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.

To strain; to subject to excessive tests.

Verb

To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= On a bright new wing , passage=Flying using only the power of the sun is an enticing prospect. But manned solar-powered aircraft are fragile and slow, […].}}

(ambitransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).

* (John Dryden)

Sleep flies the wretch.

* (William Shakespeare)

to fly the favours of so good a king

* (William Shakespeare)

Whither shall I fly to escape their hands?

* (John Milton)

Fly , ere evil intercept thy flight.

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He staggered and fell, grasped vainly at the stone, and slid into the abyss. “Fly , you fools!” he cried, and was gone.

(ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.

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The brave black flag I fly .

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-09-07, volume=408, issue=8852, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= On a bright new wing , passage=A solar-powered unmanned aerial system (a UAS, more commonly called a drone) could fly long, lonely missions that conventional aircraft would not be capable of.}}

To be accepted, come about or work out.

To travel very fast.

* (John Milton)

Fly , envious Time, till thou run out thy race.

* Bryant

The dark waves murmured as the ships flew on.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 18, author=Ben Dirs, work=BBC Sport

, title= Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia , passage=After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar.}}

To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.

To hunt with a hawk.

(Francis Bacon)

Verb

(baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb).

Jones flied to right in his last at-bat.