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Webster 1913 Edition
Brazen
1.
Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
2.
Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
3.
Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
as, a
. brazen
countenanceBrazen age
. (a)
(Myth.)
The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age.
(b)
(Archæol.)
See under
– Bronze
. Brazen sea
(Jewish Antiq.)
, a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon’s temple for the use of the priests.
Bra′zen
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Brazened
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Brazening
.] To carry through impudently or shamelessly;
as, to
. brazen
the matter throughSabina
brazened
it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect. W. Black.
Webster 1828 Edition
Brazen
BRA'ZEN
,Adj.
1.
Pertaining to brass; proceeding from brass; as a brazen din.2.
Impudent; having a front like brass. Brazen age, or age of brass, in mythology, the age which succeeded the silver age,when men had degenerated from primitive purity.
Brazen dish, among miners, is the standard by which other dishes are gauged, and is kept in the king's hall.
Brazen sea, in Jewish antiquity, a huge vessel of brass, cast on the plain of Jordan, and placed in Solomon's temple. It was ten cubits from brim to brim, five in height, thirty in circumference, and contained 3000 baths. It was designed for the priests to wash themselves in, before they performed the service of the temple.
BRA'ZEN
,Verb.
I.