brooder (broʻder)

A device for the artificial rearing of young chickens or other birds. It consists e entially of an inclosed run, where the young birds are fed, and a covered place for them to run into, which is kept at a temperature of about 90° F., either by means of a lamp placed beneath the metallic floor, or by hot air or water-pipes carried above or below the space occupied by the chicks. His face was bronzed as though by burning climes. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 414. 2. To give the color or appearance of bronze to, as by applying copper-dust or -leaf to the surface, etc.-3. To harden or make like bronze; hence, figuratively, to make hard or unfeeling. The lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Scott . bronze-backer (bronz'bak" ér), n. A name given to the black-ba . Bronze - backer is one of its pet names among the anglers. Goode, American Fishes. bronzed (bronzd), p. a. Colored by bronzing; of a bronze color; tanned. - Bronzed gla , ornamental gla of dark-green paste, which has been exposed to corrosive vapors, so that the surface is iridescent when seen by reflected light. - Bronzed-skin disease. Same as Add is on's disease (which see, under disease ). for display. When the garment is large and heavy, as a cloak or the ecclesiastical cope, the brooch has generally been found insufficient, and has been replaced by the agraffe or some other form of clasp. Ornamental brooches are now worn mostly by women, but were formerly worn by both sexes, sometimes on the hat or cap. Also spelled broach. He has a wide beard and flowing yellow hair; a green cloak wrapped around him; a bright silver brooch in his cloak over his breast. Quoted by W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. [Irish, p. ccccxlvi. With broches and aiglets of gold upon their caps. R. Robinson , tr. of Sir T. More's Utopia, ii. 6. Honour 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. B. Jonson. brooch1 (brōch or bröch), v. t. [ [Rare.] Not the imperious show Of the full-fortun'd Cæsar ever shall Be brooch'd with me. Shak., A. and C., iv. 13. bronze-gold (bronz'gold), n. A name given to all the so-called bronzes which have a golden brooch2 (brōch), n. color.