Assayers

In fact, assaying is becoming wider in its scope, and the distinction between "assayers" and "analysts" will in time be difficult to detect. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

Some "assayers" use both tartar and nitre, the former of course being in excess. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)

And business is good, because there aren't too many assayers in circulation. ❋ R.N. Bhaskar (2010)

Variations or additions that indicate the origin may include the marks of the mint masters and the assayers, but a mint mark represents the enduring institution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The assayers have also been commissioned to assist in authentication of gold bar delivery the world over from the US exchanges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

South Devon, and various other gentlemen, of whom more hereafter, had adventured their money; and a considerable colony was to be sent out the next year, with miners, assayers, and, what was more, ❋ Unknown (2007)

The photographs on driver's licenses are an early example, but engineers have developed many high-tech alternatives, some of them already mentioned: fingerprint readers, voiceprint recorders, retina or iris scanners, face-recognition devices, hand-geometry assayers, even signature-geometry analyzers, which register pen pressure and writing speed as well as the appearance of a signature. ❋ Unknown (2002)

If the assayers were unaware that the lead already contained particles of gold, they would have erroneously concluded that the ore was valuable and would make the Queen, and them, very rich. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Juliet was dressed in lightweight cashmere today, with a little gold in the ears and on both wrists, nothing too eye-catching except to her father and other jewelry assayers. ❋ Cleary, Jon, 1917- (1994)

Miners with outfits, gamblers with their paraphernalia, saloon men with case on case of liquors, assayers, lawyers, teamsters, cooks -- even a half dozen women -- comprised the heterogeneous army making ready for the charge. ❋ Philip Verrill Mighels (N/A)

Among the most important citizens in every mining community are the assayers, of whom there are generally a swarm to be found about every new strike; some of them the veriest charlatans that ever disgraced an honorable profession. ❋ Edwin Eastman (N/A)

That guy over there gets [no hoes] he such a bozo. You can he he’s [Azarias] [Robel] Assayeing it. Pause ❋ Ndhdgdyejwnavsyd (2022)

We might need to call an [assayer] to get the [specific] [value]. ❋ ExtravaganzaPalooza (2016)