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- Brass - n. - An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.
- Brass - n. - A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
- Brass - n. - Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
- Brass - n. - Impudence; a brazen face.
- Brass - n. - Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
- Brass - n. - A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
- Brass - n. - Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
- Brass-visaged - a. - Impudent; bold.
- Brassage - n. - A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
- Brassart - n. - Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.
- Brasse - n. - A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
- Brasses - pl. - of Brass
- Brassets - n. - See Brassart.
- Brassica - n. - A genus of plants embracing several species and varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape or coleseed (B. napus), etc.
- Brassicaceous - a. - Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
- Brassiness - n. - The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.
- Brassy - a. - Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.
- Brassy - a. - Impudent; impudently bold.
- Aventurine - n. - A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
- Ormolu - n. - A variety of brass made to resemble gold by the use of less zinc and more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold.
- Saxhorn - n. - A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Adolphe Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.
- Tinker - n. - A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
- Label - n. - A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
- Foil - n. - A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil; gold foil.
- Brass - n. - A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc.
- Spinet - n. - A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly much used.
- Brass - n. - A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing.
- Copper - n. - A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
- Cornet - n. - A brass instrument, with cupped mouthpiece, and furnished with valves or pistons, now used in bands, and, in place of the trumpet, in orchestras. See Cornet-a-piston.
- Circumferentor - n. - A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360¡, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.
- Ring - n. - An instrument, formerly used for taking the sun's altitude, consisting of a brass ring suspended by a swivel, with a hole at one side through which a solar ray entering indicated the altitude on the graduated inner surface opposite.
- Chalcopyrite - n. - Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color.
- Saxophone - n. - A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
- Harper - n. - A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland.
- Cornet-a-piston - n. - A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.
- Leyden phial - - A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland.
- Bombardon - n. - Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.
- Seraphine - n. - A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
- Horn - n. - A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
- Resonator - n. - Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds.
- Betso - n. - A small brass Venetian coin.
- Pin - n. - Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
- Burnish - a. - To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
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- G5470 χάλκεος - 5470 χάλκεος - ΧΆΛΚΕΟΣ - - chálkeos - khal'-keh-os - from χαλκός; coppery:--brass. - Adjective - greek
- G5474 χαλκολίβανον - 5474 χαλκολίβανον - ΧΑΛΚΟΛΊΒΑΝΟΝ - - chalkolíbanon - khal-kol-ib'-an-on - neuter of a compound of χαλκός and λίβανος (in the implied mean of whiteness or brilliancy); burnished copper, an alloy of copper (or gold) and silver having a brilliant lustre:--fine brass. - Noun Neuter - greek
- G5475 χαλκός - 5475 χαλκός - ΧΑΛΚΌΣ - - chalkós - khal-kos' - perhaps from χαλάω through the idea of hollowing out as a vessel (this metal being chiefly used for that purpose); copper (the substance, or some implement or coin made of it):--brass, money. - Noun Masculine - greek
- H5153 נָחוּשׁ - 5153 נָחוּשׁ - נָחוּשׁ - - nâchûwsh - naw-khoosh' - apparently passive participle of נָחַשׁ (perhaps in the sense of ringing), i.e. bell-metal; or from the red color of the throat of a serpent (נָחָשׁ, as denominative) when hissing); coppery, i.e. (figuratively) hard; of brass. - Adjective - heb
- H5174 נְחָשׁ - 5174 נְחָשׁ - נְחָשׁ - - nᵉchâsh - nekh-awsh' - (Aramaic) corresponding to נְחוּשָׁה; copper; brass. - Noun Masculine - arc
- H5178 נְחֹשֶׁת - 5178 נְחֹשֶׁת - נְחֹשֶׁת - - nᵉchôsheth - nekh-o'-sheth - for נְחוּשָׁה; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver); brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5154 נְחוּשָׁה - 5154 נְחוּשָׁה - נְחוּשָׁה - - nᵉchûwshâh - nekh-oo-shaw' - or נְחֻשָׁה; feminine of נָחוּשׁ; copper; brass, steel. Compare נָחָשׁ. - Noun Feminine - heb
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- Job 18 41:27 - He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
יחשׁב לתבן ברזל לעץ רקבון נחושׁה - Deuteronomy 5 33:25 - Thy shoes shall be iron and brass ; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
ברזל ונחשׁת מנעליך וכימיך דבאך - Exodus 2 35:24 - Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the LORD'S offering : and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.
כל־מרים תרומת כסף ונחשׁת הביאו את תרומת יהוה וכל אשׁר נמצא אתו עצי שׁטים לכל־מלאכת העבדה הביאו - 1 Chronicles 13 29:7 - And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.
ויתנו לעבודת בית־האלהים זהב ככרים חמשׁת־אלפים ואדרכנים רבו וכסף ככרים עשׂרת אלפים ונחשׁת רבו ושׁמונת אלפים ככרים וברזל מאה־אלף ככרים - Isaiah 23 48:4 - Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass ;
מדעתי כי קשׁה אתה וגיד ברזל ערפך ומצחך נחושׁה
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- Exodus 2 27:19 All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.
כְּלִי מִשְׁכָּן עֲבֹדָה יָתֵד יָתֵד חָצֵר נְחֹשֶׁת - Exodus 2 38:17 And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
אֶדֶן עַמּוּד נְחֹשֶׁת וָו עַמּוּד חָשֻׁק כֶּסֶף צִפּוּי רֹאשׁ כֶּסֶף עַמּוּד חָצֵר חָשַׁק כֶּסֶף - Ezekiel 26 24:11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.
עָמַד רֵיק גֶּחֶל נְחֹשֶׁת יָחַם חָרַר טֻמְאָה נָתַךְ תָּוֶךְ חֶלְאָה תָּמַם - Isaiah 23 45:2 I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
יָלַךְ פָּנִים יָשַׁר הָדַר יָשַׁר שָׁבַר דֶּלֶת נְחוּשָׁה גָּדַע בְּרִיחַ בַּרְזֶל - Exodus 2 27:11 And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
צָפוֹן פֵּאָה אֹרֶךְ קֶלַע מֵאָה אֹרֶךְ עֶשְׂרִים עַמּוּד עֶשְׂרִים אֶדֶן נְחֹשֶׁת וָו עַמּוּד חָשֻׁק כֶּסֶף