bronze 694 
resembling bronze; bronze-powder. 4. Bold- bronzing-machine (bron'zing-ma-shen''), n. A 
ness; impudence ; brass. machine for decorating wall-papers, fabrics, 
Imbrown'd with native bronze,\o'. Henley stands, labels, . etc., with bronze-powder. 
Tuning his voice, and balancing his hands. bronZlSt (bron'zist), n. [< bronze + -1st.] One 
Pope, Dunciad, iii. 199. w ], o ca sts bronzes, or works in bronze. 
Amber bronze. See amber*. Bavarian bronze, sey bronzite (bron'zit), n. [< bronze + -ite 1 .] A 
Bavarian. Chemical bronze, nitromuriate of plati- f err if erous variety of the mineral enstatite, hav- 
in addition i t 2 per cent, of mercury. Manganese 
bronze an alloy formed by the addition of from 1 to 2 
per cent, of manganese to the proportions of copper and 
zinc used in making brass. White bronze, a generic 
name given to the lighter bronzes which approach the 
color of tin. 
II. a. 1 . Made of or resembling bronze : as, 
_ ! luster 
due to microscopic inclusions. 
bronzy (bron'zi), a. [< bronze + -y 1 .] 
seinbling bronze : as, a bronzy appearance. 
The Cicindela maritima, which is found only on sandy 
brook 
H. trans. 1. To sit over, cover, and cherish : 
as, a hen broods her chicks ; hence, to nourish. 
The thrifty earth that bringeth out 
And broodeth up her breed. 
Warner, Albion's Eng., ii. 11. 
2. To cherish with care. 
See how he broods the boy. Fletcher, Bouduca, iv. 2. 
She broods and blesses me, she calms and gathers me. 
JK. S. Pkelps, Beyond the Gates, p. 195. 
Be- 3 - To ponder over ; plan or mature with care : 
a "+n Tiwi/i// Txrnr " Jlftrnn.. Wfl.r "with Stmin. 
as, "to brood war," Bacon, War with Spain. 
You'll sit and brood your sorrows on a throne. Dryden. 
sea-shores, is of a pale bronzy yellow, so as to be almost brood'^t, a. An obsolete form of broad. 
invisible. A. R. Wallace, Nat. Select., p. 57. brOOd-capSUle (brod'kap"sul), n. A cyst or 
a bronze statue. 2. Characterized by the use broo 1 (bro), n. Same as bree 1 . capsule in which tsenia-heads are developed, as 
of bronze: as, the bronze age. Bronze age. See broo 2 (bro), n. See brow, 11. an echinocoecus (which see). 
archaeological ages, under age. Bronze coloring, sur- brooch 1 (broch or broch), n. [Same as broach, brood-cavity (brod'kav // i-ti), n. A brood- 
face effects resembling those of bronzes produced either brooch being the commoner spelling of the pouch, in general. 
* re ?^^ B ^^^^2 r J ) J3d^to'iuad l )torlM word in this sense.] An ornamental clasp con- brood-cell (brod'sel), n. In bee-culture, a cell 
sisting of a pin and a projecting or covering o f a honeycomb destined for the reception of 
a larva. The brood-cells are separated from the honey- 
cells, generally occupying a different comb. 
brooder (bro'der), n. A device for the artificial 
rearing of young chickens or other birds. It con- 
sists essentially of an inclosed run, where the young birds 
are fed, and a covered place for them to run into, which 
is kept at a temperature of about 90' F., either by means 
of a lamp placed beneath the metallic floor^or by hot air 
Brooch of the Merovingian period, found at St. Denis and now in the 
Musee de Cluny, Faris. r 
matter. See bronzing. Bronze green. See green. 
Bronze turkey, a large variety of domestic turkey with 
dark-brown plumage having a brilliant metallic luster. 
bronze (bronz), v. t.; pret. and pp. bronzed, 
ppr. bronzing. [= P. bromer = Sp. broncear, 
OSp. bronzar = Pg. bronzear, bronze ; cf. It. ab- 
bronzare, tan, scorch, sunburn, imbrown ; from 
the noun.] 1. To make brown or of the color 
of bronze, as by exposure to the sun. 
Seam'd with an ancient swordcut on the cheek, 
. 
" Diet, du Mobilier fran<;ais. J 
or water-pipes carried above or below the space occupied 
by the chicks. 
And bruised and bronzed. . brooding (bro'ding), p. a. [Ppr. of brood 1 , .] 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine, shield, used for fastening the dress, or merely j_ y^g^ as a bird on h er eggs: as, a brood- 
His face was bronzed as though by burning climes. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 414. 
for display. When the garment is large and heavy, as 
a cloak or the ecclesiastical cope, the brooch has gener- 
ally been found insufficient, and has been replaced by the 
agraffe or some other form of clasp. Ornamental brooches 
are now worn mostly by women, but were formerly worn 
by both sexes, sometimes on the hat or cap. Also spelled 
broach. 
He has a wide beard and flowing yellow hair ; a green 
cloak wrapped around him ; a bright silver brooch in his 
cloak over his breast. 
Quoted by IF. K. Sullican, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. 
[Irish, p. ccccxlvi. 
With broches and aiglets of gold upon their caps. 
R. Robinson, tr. of Sir T. More's Utopia, ii. 6. 
Honour 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all 
times. B. Jonson. 
[Bare.] 
Not the imperious show 
^B3ft% a. i, 13. 
(broch), n. [Origin uncertain.] 
2. To give the color or appearance of bronze 
to, as by applying copper-dust or -leaf to 
the surface, etc. 3. To harden or make like 
bronze; hence, figuratively, to make hard or 
unfeeling. 
The lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his fore- 
head. Scott. 
bronze-backer (bronz' bak "er), n. A name 
given to the black-bass. 
Bronze-backer is one of its pet names among the anglers. 
Goode, American Fishes. 
bronzed (bronzd), p. a. Colored by bronzing; 
of a bronze color; tanned Bronzed glass, orna- 
mental glass of dark-green paste, which has been exposed 
to corrosive vapors, so that the surface is iridescent when 
seen by reflected light. Bronzed-sun disease. Same 
as Addison's disease (which see, under disease). 
bronze-gold (bronz'gold), n. A name given to 
all the so-called bronzes which have a golden brooch' 2 (broch), n, [Origin uncertain.] A 
color. monotint, or picture in one color, as a sepia 
bronze-liquid (bronz'lik"wid), n. A kind of sketch. 
varnish mixed with bronze-powder to make brood 1 (brod), n. [< ME. brood, brod, < AS. 
bronze-paint. brod (= D. broed = MLG. brot = OHG. MHG. 
bronze-liquor (bronz'lik"or), n. A solution of brvot, G. brut), brood; with formative -d, from 
antimony chlorid and copper sulphate, used for 
bronzing gun-barrels, etc. 
bronze-paint (brouz'paut), n. A pigment con- 
sisting of bronze-powder with varnish as a ve- 
hicle. Commonly called gold-paint. 
bronze-powder (bronz'pou"der), n. A pig- 
ment made by reducing leaves of Dutch metal, 
or some similar alloy, to powder. The color is 
varied as may be desired from pale-yellow to deep-red, by 
using different proportions of the component metals, cop- 
per and zinc. 
bronzewing (bronz'wing), n. A name for cer- 
tain species of Australian pigeons, chiefly of the 
genus Phaps, distinguished by the bronze color 
of their plumage. The common bronze-winged ground- 
dove, P. chalcoptera, abounds in all the Australian colo- 
nies, and is a plump bird, often weighing a pound, much 
esteemed for the table. 
brpnzify (bron'zi-fi), . t. ; pret. and pp. bron- 
zified, ppr. bronzifying. [< bronze + -<-/)/.] To 
make like bronze ; cast in bronze ; represent 
in a bronze figure or statue. 
St. Michael descending upon the Fiend has been caught 
and bronzijied just as he lighted on the castle of St. An 
ing hen. 
Still did the nightingale 
Unto his brooding mate tell all his tale. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 309. 
2. Warming: as, "the brooding heat," Tenny- 
soii, Mariana in the South. 3. Pondering; 
thinking deeply ; disposed to ponder or think 
deeply : as, a brooding disposition. 
I could cite many instances where the brooding humor 
... of our new people long since cropped out in rhyme. 
Stedman, Poets of America, p. 59. 
4. Settled; rooted; fixed in the heart: a fig- 
urative use derived from the steadfastness with 
which a bird sits on her eggs. 
A brooding and unavowed hostility. 
Milman, Latin Christianity, II. ix. 
A mare kept for 
brood-mare (brod'mar), n. 
breeding. 
brood-pouch (brod 'pouch), n. A pouch, or 
some similar cavity of the body of an animal, 
in which eggs or young are received and de- 
tained for a time ; a brood-cavity. 
He |the male stickleback] only bears the brood-pouch and 
alone builds the nest. Claus, Zoology (trans.), p. 104. 
In the Entoprocta there is a peculiar brood-pouch. 
E. Ji. Lankester, Encyc. Brit., XIX. 433. 
the same root (*6ro. .warm, heat) as G. briihe, brood-space (brod'spas), n. A brood-cavity, 
broth: see broift. Hence breed, q. v.] 1. Off- An JJJ the V ood .J, M _* betwe en the bod/and 
spring; progeny. . . _ . .. the mantle. Oegenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 268. 
broody (bro'di), a. [< ME. *brody, < AS. bro- 
dig (= G. briitig), broody, < brod, brood.] 1. 
Of a brooding disposition ; inclined to brood or 
sit, as a hen. 
Tegetmeier states that a cross between two non-sitting 
varieties [of the common fowl] almost invariably produces 
a mongrel that becomes broody, and sits with remarkable 
steadiness. Sir J. Lubbock, Origin of Civilisation, p. S54. 
2. Breeding or adapted for breeding: as, a 
The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth. 
2. A hatch; the young birds hatched in one 
nest, or those placed together in the care of one 
hen, or in an artificial brooder: as, a brood of 
chickens or of ducks. 3. That which is bred; 
species generated; that which is produced; 
hence, figuratively, sort or kind. 
Have you forgotten Libya's burning wastes, . . . 
Its tainted air, and all its broods of poison? 
Addison, Cato. 
. 
broody bitch. 
tin or copper ore, as mundic or black-jack. S . 
Hunt. 5. A north of Scotland name for sal- 
mon-fry. Ants' brood. See (!. To sit on brood*, 
to be in the act of brooding, like a bird sitting on eggs ; 
figuratively, to ponder. 
There's something in his soul, 
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
= Syn. 2. Cone y, etc. See Hock. 
gelo. 
Thackeray, Newcomes, xxxv. 
bronzine (bron'zin), a. [= It. bronzino, bronzed, 
sunburnt (cf. ML. bronzinus, n., bronze); < 
bronze + -in* 1 .] Resembling bronze; bronze- 
colored. 
bronzing (bron'zing), n. [Verbal n. of bronze, 
v."\ 1. The process of giving a bronze-like sur- 
face to metals, plaster, wood, and other sub- 
stances. This is commonly effected by the application 
of a liquid called chemical bronze, a solution of the chlorid 
(nitromuriate) of platinum ; it may also be done by the 
electrotype process, or by dusting with a bronze-powder 
any surface which has been rubbed with linseed-oil varnish. 
2. A metallic color or iridescent appearance 
as of bronze. 
By this time the dark shadows ought to show the green- 
ish, almost metallic look known as broiiziiuj. 
Lea, Photography, p. 45. 
Bronzing-salt, antimony chlorid, so called because it is 
used in the process of browning gun-barrels and other 
articles of iron ; bronze-liquor. 
4. In mining, any heterogeneous mixture with brook 1 (bruk), n. [Early mod. E. also brooke, 
broke; < ME. brook, brok, < AS. broc, a stream, = 
D. broc k = MLG. brok, LG. brook, a marsh, pool, 
= OHG. bruoh, MHG. bruoch, G. bruch, a marsh, 
bog ; perhaps orig. a gushing stream (cf . spring), 
being possibly connected remotely with AS. 
brecan, etc., break, burst forth: see break.'] A 
natural stream of water, too small to be called 
a river. 
Springs make little rivulets ; those united make brooks; 
and those coming together make rivers, which empty 
themselves into the sea. Locke. 
Brook-trout. See trout. To fly at the brookt. See 
brook 1 (bruk), r. i. [Appar. < brook*, .] To 
draw together and threaten rain: said of the 
clouds: with up. [Old and prov. Eng.] 
brook 2 (bruk), v. t. [< ME. brooken, broken, 
later forms of brouken, bniken, use, possess, 
enjoy; of food, digest (whence the mod. sense 
of ' stomach, endure ') ; < AS. brncaii (pret. breac, 
pi. brucon, pp. brocen), use, have the use of, en- 
Joy, esp. food, = OS. In-iikiiii = OFries. briiku 
= MD. bruyekrn, gliebrui/rken, D. gebntiken = 
MLG. bruken, use, = OHG. bnlhhan, MHG. bru- 
clien, G. bran clicn, use, need, = Goth, briikjati, 
use,=L. frni (for */n<</n), enjoy (>frugcs, fruits, 
fructus, fruit: see fruit), perhaps = Skt. V bliuj 
(for *bhruj1), enjoy, esp. food. See broker, 
. . , . . 
brood 1 (brod), r. [< ME. broden, brood (< brod, 
brood), equiv. to the earlier breden, breed : see 
breed, ?.] I. intrans, 1. To sit persistently on 
eggs, covering and warming them with the body 
and wings, for the purpose of hatching them : 
said of birds. 
Brodyn, as byrdys, f oveo, f etifico. Prompt. Parv. , p. 53. 
Thou from the first 
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 
Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss. 
Milton, P. L., i. 21. 
2. To rest fixedly like a brooding bird. 
Raven darkness brooded o'er the deep. 
Sir W. Jones. 
3. To meditate long and anxiously ; remain a 
longtime in anxiety or solicitous thought ; have 
the mind dwelling persistently on a subject: 
with on or over. 
Half mad 
With exile, and with brooding on his wrongs. 
M. Arnold, Empedoeles. 
