Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In engraving, an impression taken while an engraved or etched plate is in progress of making, to test the condition of the work.
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The peace of conscience thus secured will be trial-proof, sickness-proof, deathbed-proof, judgment-proof.
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This he did, and Camilla was not trial-proof, but fell.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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