Brass \Brass\, n.; pl. Brasses. [OE. bras, bres, AS. br[ae]s;
   akin to Icel. bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire,
   and to E. braze, brazen. Cf. 1st & 2d Braze.]
   1. 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.
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   2. (Mach.) 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.
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   3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.]
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            Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your
            purses, nor scrip for your journey.   --Matt. x. 9.
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   4. Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.]
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   5. pl. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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            The very scullion who cleans the brasses.
                                                  --Hopkinson.
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   6. 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.
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   7. pl. (Mining) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the
      color of which is near to that of brass.
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   Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a
         translation for copper or some kind of bronze.
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   Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
         compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass
         founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry.
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   Brass band (Mus.), a band of musicians who play upon wind
      instruments made of brass, as trumpets, cornets, etc.

   Brass foil, Brass leaf, brass made into very thin sheets;
      -- called also Dutch gold.
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Dutch \Dutch\, a. [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig.,
   popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG.
   diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS.
   pe['o]d, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta
   land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have
   applied the name especially to the Germanic people living
   nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.]
   Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
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   Dutch auction. See under Auction.

   Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim
      milk.

   Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is
      yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.

   Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium
      repens), the seed of which was largely imported into
      England from Holland.

   Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers
      sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]

   Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang]
      --Marryat.

   Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so
      arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened,
      while the upper part remains open.

   Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass
      rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in
      Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch
      mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.
      

   Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid,
      C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal
      odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or
      olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called
      because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four
      Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant.

   Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or
      kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron
      kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

   Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in
      distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.

   Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or
      Equisetum (Equisetum hyemale) having a rough,
      siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; --
      called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See
      Equisetum.

   Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly
      much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the
      like.
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   Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.
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               Germany is slandered to have sent none to this
               war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that
               other pilgrims, passing through that country,
               were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for
               their pains.                       --Fuller.
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