Upton, the refiner, has a smoky chimney, that sets him and all the neighbourhood by the ears.

Ralegh had some morsels of merquisite he had himself picked up assayed by a refiner.

Here also perished our Saxon refiner and discoverer of inestimable riches, as it was left amongst some of us in undoubted hope.

The refiner takes then an assay with a small ladle, and when it cools, breaks it in a vice, to see the state of the copper.