To attempt, undertake (a deed). Also with sentence as obj.: To take care, see (that).

transitive. To attempt, try to do (anything difficult).

To test one's ability to deal with (something); to attempt to do, perform, or accomplish (an action); to venture upon, to essay. to try over, to…

transitive. With infinitive or clause as object. To try, endeavour, attempt, strive (to do something). Obsolete.

transitive. To try, attempt, or dare to do (something); to undertake (a thing of doubtful outcome); to try (one's luck); to venture, risk…

transitive. To try to do or endeavour to achieve (something); to make an attempt at (a challenging or difficult goal). Cf. assay, v. 16.

intransitive. = sense 1a. Obsolete.

intransitive. With at. To go at, esp. aggressively or forcefully; to tackle or attack; (also) to make an attempt at, ‘have a go at’. In early use…

transitive. To attempt or undertake (to do); to exert oneself in order to effect. Obsolete.

transitive. To attempt, try (something). Also with infinitive as object. Obsolete.

transitive. With to-infinitive. To try, attempt. Cf. fand, v. 5a. rare.

transitive. To make an effort, to use one's endeavour to do or accomplish some action. with vbl._n., noun of action, or pron. representing them: To…

transitive. To endeavour to get or do. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To use effort or pains for; to attempt. Obsolete exc. archaic.

intransitive. Chiefly with at. To make an attempt at or upon; to aim at. Cf. sense 5b and offer, n.1 3a. Obsolete.

intransitive. To make a stab or thrust at. Also figurative. Obsolete. rare.

= attempt, v.

to venture at: to make a venture or attempt at; to guess at.

To attempt; to try to do, effect, accomplish, or make (anything difficult); = assay, v. 16.

= attempt, v.; ‘to attempt, assay, or prove.’ Blount Glossogr. 1656.

To have a trial at something. Obsolete.

with simple object. To attempt, to try.

Const. with preposition. to try for, to attempt to obtain or find (an object), or to reach (a place). to try at, to make an attempt upon, endeavour…

Frequently with at. To make an attempt at something; to have a spell or turn of doing something.

The hand clenched or closed tightly, with the fingers doubled into the palm. In various phrases: to grease the fistor (one) in the fist: to bribe…

colloquial. To grapple with, to try to deal with (a task, a difficulty, etc.); to try to solve (a problem). Also transferred.

to haveor take a whack at: to make an attempt or attack upon. U.S.

In colloquial phrase to make (or have,etc.) a stab at (something), to try, attempt; to make a shot at. Originally U.S.

to do one's dash (Australian colloquial), see quots. 1916 1966; to have a dash (at) (colloquial), to make an attempt.