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To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass; as, a brazen countenance. Brazen age. (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded the silver age. (b) (Archæol.) See under Bronze. -- Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.…

Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.

An impudent of shameless person. "Well said, brazenface; hold it out." Shak.

Impudent; shameless.

In a bold, impudent manner.

The quality or state of being brazen. Johnson.

To bear down with a brazen face; to surpass in impudence. T. Brown.

coustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

To confound by a loud blast or din. Trumpeters, With brazen din blast you the city's ear. Shak.

Same as Brazen.

Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.]

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. Sir W. Scott. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.

The act of casting in a mold. And why such daily cast of brazen cannon. Shak.

a Brazen-faced; impudent; bold. [Slang.]

To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.

To put together; to construct; to build. [Obs.] Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser.

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

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