brazenness (braznnes)

1. Appearance like bra ; bra ine .-2. Impudence; exce of a urance. He had a sonorous ba voice, and an air of self-confidence inclining to brazenne , George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , ii. 1. brazier1 (brāʼzièr), n . [Also brasier ; brasiere , brasyere , a worker in bra , bras , bra , + -i-ere, -y-ere, as in collier , etc. Cf. braze1 .] An artificer who works in bra . brazier (brāzièr), n. [Also brasier; Bronze Brazier made in 1675 by Pedro Cerdanyæ for the Guildhall of Barcelona. (From "L'Art pour Tous.") (Cotgrave) (cf. braisière, a camp-kettle), Four nice-looking Japanese girls brought us thick cotton quilts to sit upon, and braziers full of burning charcoal, to warm ourselves by. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, II. xix. brazier3 (brā'zièr), n . [Another form of braize2 , D. brasem , etc., bream: see bream1 .] A name used on the northern coast of Ireland for the common sea-bream, Pagellus centrodontus . IMG:content-2462.png:[blocks in formation] bit (= F. bris , a breaking open, a wreck, former brazing-tongs (bra'zing-tôngz), n. pl . Tongs ly fragments, rubbish: see bri 2 , n., breeze3 ), brizar = F. briser , break: see bruise and debris , braze2 . The name would refer to the form in which the dyewood was imported. Now usually in comp. brazil - wood , with direct reference to the coun- try Brazil. The country, named Santa Cruz by its (second) discoverer, Pedro Alvarez Cabral (1500), afterward received the name Brazil , it is said, from King Emmanuel of Portugal, on account of its producing red dyewood. The name had been long before applied to a sup- posed island in the Atlantic, perhaps by as so- ciation with Pliny's Insulæ Purpurariæ (lit. Purple Islands), sometimes supposed to refer to Madeira and Porto Santo.] 1. A heavy dye- wood of the genus Cæsalpinia ( C. Sappan ), im- ported from the East, now known as sappan- wood (which see). Him nedeth not his colour for to dien With brasil ne with grain of Port in gale. Chaucer, C. T. (ed. Tyrwhitt), 1. 15464. 2. A very heavy dyewood, from Brazil and other parts of tropical America. The true brazil wood is from the leguminous tree Cor salp in i a echinata, but the name is also given to C. pel toph oroides. Woods known as peach-wood and lima-wood are said to be from the same species. The wood has a slightly aromatic odor and a bitter-sweet taste. To extract the coloring matter, the wood is finely ground, allowed to ferment in the air, and then boiled in copper cylinders with water. The extract produces purple dyes with salts of iron, and red with salts of alumina. Lakes used by decorators are also made from it, and common red ink is prepared by adding a little alum and acid to a decoction of it. Also spelled brasil. Are my bones brazil , or my flesh of oak? O, mend what thou hast made, what I have broke. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 5. 3. Sulphate of iron. [North. Eng.] brazil-cockt, n. [Also written brasil -cock, and corruptly bri el - cock, bri il - cock, with ref. to Brazil, representing America, the place of its origin.) A turkey.