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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRA'ZEN, a. brazn. Made of brass; as a brazen helmet.
1. Pertaining to brass; proceeding from brass; as a brazen din.
2. Impudent; having a front like brass.
Brazen age, or age of brass, in mythology, the age which succeeded the silver age,when men had degenerated from primitive purity.
Brazen dish, among miners, is the standard by which other dishes are gauged, and is kept in the king's hall.
Brazen sea, in Jewish antiquity, a huge vessel of brass, cast on the plain of Jordan, and placed in Solomon's temple. It was ten cubits from brim to brim, five in height, thirty in circumference, and contained 3000 baths. It was designed for the priests to wash themselves in, before they performed the service of the temple.
BRA'ZEN, v.i. brazn. To be impudent; to bully.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]
2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) v
1: face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English brasen, from Old English bræsen, from bræs brass Date: before 12th century 1. made of brass 2. a. sounding harsh and loud like struck brass b. of the color of polished brass 3. marked by contemptuous boldness <a brazen disregard for the rules> • brazenly adverb • brazenness noun II. transitive verb (brazened; brazening) Date: circa 1555 to face with defiance or impudence — usually used in the phrase brazen it out

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. 1 (also brazen-faced) flagrant and shameless; insolent. 2 made of brass. 3 of or like brass, esp. in colour or sound. --v.tr. (foll. by out) face or undergo defiantly. Phrases and idioms: brazen it out be defiantly unrepentant under censure. Derivatives: brazenly adv. brazenness n. Etymology: OE bræsen f. bræs brass

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brazen Bra"zen, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See Brass.] 1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass. 2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass. 3. 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) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under Bronze. Brazen sea (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brazen Bra"zen, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brazened; p. pr. & vb. n. Brazening.] To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the matter through.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe a person or their behaviour as brazen, you mean that they are very bold and do not care what other people think about them or their behaviour. They're quite brazen about their bisexuality, it doesn't worry them. ADJ • brazenly He was brazenly running a $400,000-a-month drug operation from the prison. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bra'-z'-n.

See BRASS.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Made of brass. 2. Bold, brazen-faced. See brassy.

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