Bronze
[brɒnz] or [brɑnz]
Definition
(noun.) a sculpture made of bronze.
(noun.) an alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements; also any copper-base alloy containing other elements in place of tin.
(verb.) give the color and appearance of bronze to something; 'bronze baby shoes'.
(adj.) of the color of bronze .
(adj.) made from or consisting of bronze .
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(a.) A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.
(a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
(a.) Boldness; impudence; "brass."
(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.
(n.) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
Edited by Dorothy
Definition
n. an alloy of copper and tin used in various ways since the most ancient times: anything cast in bronze: the colour of bronze: (fig.) impudence.—adj. made of bronze: coloured like bronze.—v.t. to give the appearance of bronze to: (fig.) to harden.—adj. Bronzed coated with bronze: hardened.—ns. Bronze′-steel or Steel-bronze a specially hardened bronze; Bronze′-wing Bronze′-pi′geon a species of Australian pigeon having wings marked with a lustrous bronze colour.—v.t. Bronz′ify to make into bronze.—ns. Bronz′ing the process of giving the appearance of bronze; Bronz′ite a lustrous kind of diallage.—adj. Bronz′y having the appearance of bronze.—Bronze age or period a term in prehistoric arch鎜logy denoting the condition or stage of culture of a people using bronze as the material for cutting implements and weapons—as a stage of culture coming between the use of stone and the use of iron for those purposes—not an absolute division of time but a relative condition of culture.
Editor: Moll
Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of a bronze statue, signifies that she will fail in her efforts to win the person she has determined on for a husband. If the statue simulates life, or moves, she will be involved in a love affair, but no marriage will occur. Disappointment to some person may follow the dream. To dream of bronze serpents or insects, foretells you will be pursued by envy and ruin. To see bronze metals, denotes your fortune will be uncertain and unsatisfactory.
Typed by Hannah
Examples
- Great cast bronze guns of about the same weight as the Hindoo guns were also produced at St. Petersburg, Russia, in the sixteenth century. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The lever and the pulley, lathe s, picks, saws, hammers, bronze operating-lances, sundials, water-clocks, the gnomon (a vertical pillar for determining the sun's altitude) were in use. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Like a thing of bronze, motionless as death, sat Tarzan. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Smooth-bore cannon and mortars of cast-iron and bronze are still retained in some fortresses, though rifled cannon are the only type now made. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The _Tsar-Pooschka_, the great bronze gun of Moscow, cast in 1586, was even larger, and had a bore 36 inches in diameter. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Beside her was a mahogany stand bearing a cast bronze lamp with an engraved globe, over which a green paper shade had been balanced. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Bridge of Sighs, of course--and next the Church and the Great Square of St. Mark, the Bronze Horses, and the famous Lion of St. Mark. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It's wrote on gilt-edged paper,' said Sam, as he unfolded it, 'and sealed in bronze vax vith the top of a door key. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The passion came up in him, stroke after stroke, like the ringing of a bronze bell, so strong and unflawed and indomitable. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The knowledge of bronze spread late in Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sculpture had always seemed a dull business--still, bronzes looked like something. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Typist: Oliver