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Bronze   /brɑnz/   Listen
noun
Bronze  n.  
1.
An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.
2.
A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze. "A print, a bronze, a flower, a root."
3.
A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
4.
Boldness; impudence; "brass." "Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands."
Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium.
Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze.
Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface.
Phosphor bronze and Silicious bronze or Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.


verb
Bronze  v. t.  (past & past part. bronzed; pres. part. bronzing)  
1.
To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. "The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger."
2.
To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. "The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead."
Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.





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"Bronze" Quotes from Famous Books



... over a long stretch of sodden marshes, brown with the russet of Indian pipes and the bronze of their leafage. Here and there a dry ridge lifted itself lazily out of the spongy flat, and afforded solid, buoyant footing. But a dull gray began to fall upon the plains. It was fog and they knew that ...
— Annette, The Metis Spy • Joseph Edmund Collins
... longed to steal her, she was such a darling. Two beautiful young Nubian women visited me in my boat, with hair in little plaits finished off with lumps of yellow clay burnished like golden tags, soft, deep bronze skins, and lips and eyes fit for Isis and Hathor. Their very dress and ornaments were the same as those represented in the tombs, and I felt inclined to ask them how many thousand years old they were. In their house I sat on an ancient Egyptian couch with the semicircular head-rest, ...
— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon
... long and rather heavy nose, sensitive at the nostrils. High cheek bones. A good forehead, but rather too flattened at the temples. Long, thin meshes of white hair escaping through the border of the high fox-skin cap. The complexion was bronze and the face beardless. This last feature is said to be characteristic of low vitality, but it is also frequently distinctive of eccentricity, and Batoche was clearly eccentric, as the expression of his eyes ...
— The Bastonnais - Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 • John Lesperance
... And there is an old tale enhances for the imagination the grandeur of the woods of France, and secures you in the thought of your seclusion. When Charles VI. hunted in the time of his wild boyhood near Senlis, there was captured an old stag, having a collar of bronze about his neck, and these words engraved on the collar: "Caesar mini hoc donavit." It is no wonder if the minds of men were moved at this occurrence and they stood aghast to find themselves thus touching hands with forgotten ages, and following an antiquity with ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... spent many afternoons in the archives of his house, in the apartment next to the dining-room opening the bronze doors of the cabinets and poring over the bundles of papers by the soft light filtering through the Persian blinds, dusty old papers which had to be shaken to keep them from being devoured by moths! Barbarous letters of marque ...
— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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