TESTER
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Tes"ter (?), n. [OE. testere a headpiece, helmet, OF. testiere, F. t&ê;tière a head covering, fr. OF. teste the head, F. t&ê;te, fr. L. testa an earthen pot, the skull. See Test a cupel, and cf. Testière.] 1. A headpiece; a helmet. [Obs.]
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The shields bright, testers, and trappures.
Chaucer.
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2. A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.
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3. A canopy over a bed, supported by the bedposts.
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No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to keep off the cold.
Walpole.
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Tes"ter, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.] An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.
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