try vb. (3 cf. ‘a Ship is said to try, when she has no more Sails abroad but her Main or Missen Sail only, [and] is let alone to lie in the Sea’, Bailey)
2.
to prove
Rom. IV. iii. 29
“he hath still been
tried a holy man,”
Ven. 280
“thus my strength is
tried.”
3.
to sail close to the
wind
Tp. I. i. 40
“Bring her to try with
main course.”
