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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.

Impudent; bold.

A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

See Brassart.

A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

Armor for the arm; vambrace. Milton.

Of the nature of, or like, copper; brassy. [R.]

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

An instrument of wood or brass, on which this projection of the sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

Brass-colored.

opper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.

les. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.