brazen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Made of brass.

   “Brazen or rather copper swords seem to have been next introduced; these in process of time, workmen learned to harden by the addition of some other metal or mineral, which rendered them almost equal in temper to iron.”

2. sıfat Brass-like in appearance or character; bright, ruddy, hard.

   “The women, stout, strong, brazen-faced creatures, in most cases looked able to thrash any of the partners with whom they consorted.”

3. sıfat Sounding harsh and loud, like brass cymbals or brass instruments.

   “And now the Trumpets terribly from far, / With rattling Clangor, rouze the sleepy War. / The Souldiers Shouts succeed the Brazen Sounds, / And Heav'n, from Pole to Pole, the Noise rebounds.”

4. sıfat Extremely strong; impenetrable; resolute.

   “The giant [Goliath] was thus conquered by the youth [David]; the man-at-arms by the unarmed; the stone of the shepherd pierced the brazen defences of the warrior.”

5. sıfat Shameless or impudent; shocking or audacious; brash.

   “She was brazen enough to deny stealing the handbag even though she was caught on camera doing so.”

6. fiil To turn a brass color.

   “[...] the meadows roughen, grow gutteral / with goldenrod, milkweed's late-summer lilac, / cat-tails, the wild lily brazening, / dooryards overflowing in late, rough-headed bloom: [...]”

7. fiil Generally followed by out or through: to carry through in a brazen manner; to act boldly despite embarrassment, risk, etc.

   “And though the word doth eat up all they can ſay, as Moſes rod did: yet they harden their hearts with Pharaoh, they brazen their brows with him in the text, that ſaid I will not: Nay ſaid the Iſraelites, but we will have a King. [Commentary on Matthew 21:29.]”