tester

[Tes·ter]

Someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications

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A headpiece; a helmet.

Noun
a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)

Noun
someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications


n.
A headpiece; a helmet.

n.
A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb.

n.
A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.

n.
An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.


Tester

Tes"ter , n. [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. t'88ti'8are a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t'88te, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testi'8are.] 1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
The shields bright, testers, and trappures.
2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross. 3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.

Tester

Tes"ter, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

A headpiece; a helmet.

An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.

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