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- Bronze - a. - 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.
- Bronze - a. - A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
- Bronze - a. - A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
- Bronze - a. - Boldness; impudence; "brass."
- Bronze - n. - 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.
- Bronze - n. - To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
- Bronzed - imp. & p. p. - of Bronze
- Bronzewing - n. - An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
- Bronzing - n. - 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.
- Casting - n. - That which is cast in a mold; esp. the mass of metal so cast; as, a casting in iron; bronze casting.
- Millerite - n. - A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
- Embronze - v. t. - To embody in bronze; to set up a bronze representation of, as of a person.
- Bronze - n. - 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.
- Magenta - n. - An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
- Sculptor - n. - Hence, an artist who designs works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.
- Bronzewing - n. - An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.
- Phosphor-bronze - n. - A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin.
- Cast - n. - That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.
- Cist - n. - A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
- Palstave - n. - A peculiar bronze adz, used in prehistoric Europe about the middle of the bronze age.
- Coehorn - n. - A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.
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