Word Meanings - BRASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.

Additional info about word: BRASS

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. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. Matt. x. 9. 4. Impudence; a brazen face. 5. pl. (more info) Icel. bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire, and to E. braze, 1. An alloy 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BRASS)

• Effrontery
• Barefacedness
• impudence
• brass

Related words: (words related to BRASS)

• BAREFACEDNESS
  The quality of being barefaced; shamelessness; assurance; audaciousness.
• BRASS-VISAGED
  Impudent; bold.
• BRASS
  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. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
• BRASSICACEOUS
  Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• BRASSY
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
• BRASSINESS
  The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
• BRASSIERE
  A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.
• BRASSICA
  A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage , broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip ; the common turnip ; the rape of coleseed , etc.
• BRASSE
  A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
• BRASSETS
  See BRASSART
• BRASSAGE
  A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.
• IMPUDENCE
  The quality of being impudent; assurance, accompanied with a disregard of the presence or opinions of others; shamelessness; forwardness; want of modesty. Clear truths that their own evidence forces us to admit, or common experience makes
• EFFRONTERY
  Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance. Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft. Syn. -- Impudence; sauciness.
• BRASSART
  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.
• VANTBRACE; VANTBRASS
  Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton. (more info) Armor)