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2. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.
Prior.

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.
Pope.

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 Siliciousor Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.

Bronze
(Bronze), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bronzed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.]

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.
W. Black.

2. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead.
Sir W. Scott.

Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

Bronzewing
(Bronze"wing`) n. (Zoöl.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; — so called from its bronze plumage.

Bronzine
(Bronz"ine) n. A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. — a. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

Bronzing
(Bronz"ing), n.

1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

2. A material for bronzing.

Bronzist
(Bronz"ist), n. One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.

Bronzite
(Bronz"ite) n. [Cf. F. bronzite.] (Min.) A variety of enstatite, often having a bronzelike luster. It is a silicate of magnesia and iron, of the pyroxene family.

Bronzy
(Bronz"y) a. Like bronze.

Brooch
(Brooch) n. [See Broach, n.]

1. An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat.

Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat.
B. Jonson.