Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Experiment \Ex*per"i*ment\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Experimented};
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Experinenting}.]
   To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often
   with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an
   experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by,
   referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity;
   he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.