n. The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. That which is said; a declaration; a statement, especially a proverbial one; an aphorism; a proverb. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many are the sayings of the wise,
In ancient and in modern books enrolled. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain. Eclus. xxxiv. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]