Brass
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.
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.
Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
Impudence; a brazen face.
Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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.
Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
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Brass Quotations
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
Elizabeth I
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Robert Burns
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Thomas Beecham
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Ben Harper
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Charles Ives
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Laurence Sterne
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Franz Schubert
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
Herb Alpert
Orchestra had a little brass ensemble on two tracks as well, but the rest was me. I knew I couldn't continue in this direction, even if people liked it, because I can only duplicate myself.
Eberhard Weber
Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.
Herb Alpert
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
Marcus V. Pollio
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted.
Patrick Gordon
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
Betty Smith
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
John Cotton
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Brass Translations
brass in Danish is messing
brass in Dutch is geelkoper, messing
brass in French is laiton, airain
brass in Italian is ottone
brass in Norwegian is messing
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