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A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] Warner.

To bar or shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.

To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer.

To crack; to make flaws in. The brazen caldrons with the frosts are flawed. Dryden.

The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton.

Impudence; brazen assurance. [Slang] Gall bladder (Anat.), the membranous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting biliou…

Darting beams of light; casting light in rays; flashing; coruscating. In brazed arms, that cast a gleamy ray, Swift through the town the warrior bends his way. Pope.

To make a harsh sound by friction. I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the exletree. Shak.

The act of one who, or that which, grazes.

A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

n addressing the electors. [Eng.] When the rotten hustings shake In another month to his brazen lies. Tennyson.

To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc.

n kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

d as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

A large brazen vessel placed in the court of the Jewish tabernacle where the officiating priests washed their hands and feet.

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

adv. [Archaic] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged. Milton.

A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. 2 Kings xviii. 4.

Quarrel; dispute; debate; strife; -- chiefly in the phraze at odds. Set them into confounding odds. Shak. I can not speak Any beginning to this peevish odds. Shak. At odds, in dispute; at variance. "These squires at odds did fall." Spenser. "He flashes into one gross crime or other, that sets us all at odds." Shak. --…

To lampoon; to satiraze. [R.] To see himself pasquined and affronted. Dryden.