Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Say \Say\ (s[=a]), n. [Aphetic form of assay.]
   1. Trial by sample; assay; sample; specimen; smack. [Obs.]

            If those principal works of God . . . be but certain
            tastes and says, as it were, of that final benefit.
                                                  --Hooker.

            Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes. --Shak.

   2. Tried quality; temper; proof. [Obs.]

            He found a sword of better say.       --Spenser.

   3. Essay; trial; attempt. [Obs.]

   {To give a say at}, to attempt. --B. Jonson.