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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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"Bronze" Quotes from Famous Books

... amid the reeds their ostrich necks and crocodile jaws; winged serpents fly about. Finally, on the large continents, huge mammifers make their appearance, their limbs misshapen, like pieces of wood badly squared, their hides thicker than plates of bronze, or else shaggy, thick-lipped, with manes and crooked fangs. Flocks of mammoths browsed on the plains where, since, the Atlantic has been; the paleotherium, half horse, half tapir, overturned with his tumbling the ant-hills of Montmartre; and the cervus giganteus ...

— Bouvard and Pecuchet - A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life • Gustave Flaubert

... very hot. With her nostrils close to the opening In the shutters, she inhaled the heated air of the yard of drying grass. On the white window-sill just outside, a bronze wasp was whirling excitedly, that cautious stinger which never arrives until summer is sure. The oleanders in the big green tubs looked wilted though abundantly watered ...

— The Mettle of the Pasture • James Lane Allen

... the memory of Russia's great men: one of the first monuments was consecrated, as was indeed just, to Peter the Great, Russia's great reformer; in his lifetime, Count Bartolomeo Rastrelli the sculptor, father of the architect, executed a Peter the Great on Horseback, which was cast in bronze in 1847; but the successors of Peter the Great did not like this group which they did not consider sufficiently animated and would not allow it to be erected on a public square. Catherine II. had Falconet model a Peter the Great mounted on a fiery horse climbing up ...

— Russia - As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Various

... skylights immediately abaft it, which lighted a pair of family cabins situated abaft the main saloon. The wheel was a handsomely carved mahogany affair, elaborately adorned with brasswork; the binnacle also was of brass, with a bronze standard representing three dolphins twisted round each other; and the belaying-pins also were of brass, fore and aft. These, and a few other details that caught my eye, seemed to indicate that no expense had been spared in the ...

— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood

... and gleam over all the gray hillside, shot with the white and the blue. At the foot of the bank lay the flat valley, and from this vantage ground the river could be seen. The soft musical chat of its waters ascended to her ears, and among the huge bronze-leafed nut-trees, whose shelter she had just left, the woodpeckers were tapping and whistling to ...

— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall

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