Specimen
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SPECIMEN. A sample; a part of something by which the other may be known.
2. The act of congress of July 4, 1836, section 6, requires the
inventor or discoverer of an invention or discovery to accompany his
petition and specification for a patent with specimens of ingredients, an of
the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of
experiment, where the invention or discovery is of the composition of
matter.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.