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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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Etymology of 'Bronze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... was employed in pouring the contents of a champagne bottle with unsteady hand into the clock on the mantel-piece. Chanter was a particular man in this sort of furniture, and his clock was rather a specialty. It was a large bronze figure of Atlas, supporting the globe in the shape of a time-piece. Unluckily, the maker, not anticipating the sort of test to which his work would be subjected, had ingeniously left the hole for winding up in the top of the clock, so that unusual facilities existed for drowning the world-carrier, ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

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... city and valley is the Temple to the God of Literature. The missionary and I climbed to the temple and saw its pretty court, its ancient bronze censer, and its many beautiful flowers, and then sat on the terrace in the sun and watched the picturesque valley spread ...

— An Australian in China - Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma • George Ernest Morrison

... probably portion of a larger vessel. Thickness 1/4 inch (nearly). A third fragment of porcelain, shown at bottom of photo, is decorated roughly in a neutral brown colour, which has imperfectly 'fluxed.' It, also, appears to be Chinese. Thickness 1/8 inch (nearly).—A brass or bronze object, cast. Probably portion of a clasp or buckle.—A brass finger ring containing a piece of mottled green glass held loosely in place by a turned-over denticulated rim. The metal is ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... entered the church to autograph his name in the ancient Bible, which, with a silver Holy Communion service, a bell, two tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments, and a bronze British coat-of-arms, had been presented to the Mohawks by Queen Anne. He inscribed "Arthur" just below the "Albert Edward," which, as Prince of Wales, the late king wrote when he visited ...

— Legends of Vancouver • E. Pauline Johnson

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