bronze powder (bronzpou"der)

A pigment made by reducing leaves of Dutch metal, or some similar alloy, to powder. The color is varied as may be desired from pale-yellow to deep-red, by using different proportions of the component metals, copper and zinc. bronze wing (bronz'wing), п. A name for certain species of Australian pigeons, chiefly of the genus Phaps, distinguished by the bronze color of their plumage. The common bronze-winged ground. dove, P. chal copter a, abounds in all the Australian colonies, and is a plump bird, often weighing a pound, much bronzify (bron'zi-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. bron zified, ppr. bronzifying. [ esteemed for table. St. Michael descending upon the Fiend has been caught and bronzified just as he lighted on the castle of St. Anbronzine (bron'zin), a. [=It. bronzino, bronzed, sunburnt (ef. ML. bronzinus, n., bronze); [Origin uncertain.] A monotint, or picture in one color, as a sepia sketch. IMG:content-2592.png:[blocks in formation] Unto his brooding mate tell all his tale. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 309. 2. Warming: as, "the brooding heat," Tenny son, Mariana in the South.-3. Pondering; thinking deeply; disposed to ponder or think deeply: as, a brooding disposition. I could cite many instances where the brooding humor of our new people long since cropped out in rhyme. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 59. 4. Settled; rooted; fixed in the heart: a fig- urative use derived from the steadfastne with which a bird sits on her eggs. A brooding and unavowed hostility. Milman, Latin Christianity, II. ix. brood-mare (bröd'mar), n. A mare kept for breeding. brood-pouch (bröd'pouch), n. A pouch, or some similar cavity of the body of an animal, in which eggs or young are received and de- tained for a time; a brood-cavity. brood1 (bröd), n. [ , brod , brod (= D. broed = MLG. brot = OHG. MHG. bruot, G. brut), brood; with formative -d, from the same root (* bro , warm, heat) as G. brühe , brood-space (bröd spās), n . He [the male stickleback] only bears the brood - pouch and alone builds the nest. Claus , Zoology (trans.), p. 104. In the Entoproct a there is a peculiar brood - pouch , E. R. Lankester , Encyc. Brit., XIX. 433. A brood-cavity. broth: see broill . Hence breed , q. v.] 1. Off- spring; progeny. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood . Words worth. 2. A hatch; the young birds hatched in one nest, or those placed together in the care of one hen, or in an artificial brooder: as, a brood of chickens or of ducks.-3. That which is bred; species generated; that which is produced; hence, figuratively, sort or kind. Have you forgotten Libya's burning wastes,... Its tainted air, and all its broods of poison? Add is on , Cato. 4. In mining, any heterogeneous mixture with tin or copper ore, as mundic or black-jack. R. Hunt.-5. A north of Scotland name for salmon-fry-Ants' brood. See ant1. To sit on broodt, figuratively, to ponder. to be in the act of brooding, like a bird sitting on eggs; There's something in his soul, O'er which his melancholy sits on brood. =Syn. 2. Covey, etc. See flock. brood1 (bröd), v. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. [ broden , brood ( brod , brood), equiv. to the earlier breden, breed: see breed, v.] I. in trans. 1. To sit persistently on eggs, covering and warming them with the body and wings, for the purpose of hatching them: said of birds. Brodyn , as byrdys, foveo, fetifico. Prompt . Parv ., p. 53. Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast aby . IMG:content-2593.png:[blocks in formation] gelo. Thackeray , New comes, xxxV. colored. bronzing (bron'zing), n. [Verbal n. of bronze , v .] 1. The proce of giving a bronze-like surface to metals, plaster, wood, and other substances. This is commonly effected by the application of a liquid called chemical bronze , a solution of the chlorid (nitro muriate) of platinum; it may also be done by the electrotype proce , or by dusting with a bronze-powder any surface which has been rubbed with linseed-oil varnish. 2. A metallic color or iridescent appearance as of bronze. By this time the dark shadows ought to show the greenish, almost metallic look known as bronzing . Lea , Photography, p. 45. with on or over . Bronzing-salt, antimony chlorid, so called because it is used in the proce of browning gun-barrels and other articles of iron bronze-liquor. Half mad With exile, and with brooding on his wrongs. M. Arnold , Empedocles. An egg in the brood - space formed between the body and the mantle. Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 268. broody (brö'di), a . [ * brody , dig (= G. brütig ), broody, brōd , brood.] 1. Of a brooding disposition; inclined to brood or sit, as a hen. Tegetmeier states that a cro between two non-sitting varieties [of the common fowl] almost invariably produces a mongrel that becomes broody , and sits with remarkable steadine . Sir J. Lubbock , Origin of Civilisation, p. 354. 2. Breeding or adapted for breeding: as, a broody bitch.