ESSAY

I. transitive verb Date: 14th century to put to a test, to make an often tentative or experimental effort to perform ; try , see: attempt ~er noun II. noun see: agent Date: 14th century trial , test , 2. effort , attempt , the result or product of an attempt, 3. an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view, something resembling such a composition , a proof of an unaccepted design for a stamp or piece of paper money