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bra·zen 
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| 1. | shameless or impudent: brazen presumption. |
| 2. | made of brass. |
| 3. | like brass, as in sound, color, or strength. |
| 4. | to make brazen or bold. |
| 5. | brazen out or through, to face boldly or shamelessly: He prefers to brazen it out rather than admit defeat. |
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Brazen
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adj.
tr.v. bra·zened, bra·zen·ing, bra·zens To face or undergo with bold self-assurance: brazened out the crisis. [Middle English brasen, made of brass, from Old English bræsen, from bræs, brass.] bra'zen·ly adv., bra'zen·ness n. |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
brazen
O.E. bræsen "made of brass," from bræs "brass." The figurative sense of "hardened in effrontery" is c.1573 (in brazen-face), perhaps suggesting a face unable to show shame (see brass). To brazen it out "face impudently" is from 1555.
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| brazen | |
adjective | |
| 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] |
| 2. | made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) |
verb | |
| 1. | face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
brazen [ˈbreizn] adjective
impudent or shameless
Example: a brazen young woman
See also: brazen it outExample: a brazen young woman
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
Brazen
Age\ ([=a]j), n. [OF. aage, eage, F. [^a]ge, fr. L. aetas through a supposed LL. aetaticum. L. aetas is contracted fr. aevitas, fr. aevum lifetime, age; akin to E. aye ever. Cf. Each.]1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. --Ps. xxxix. 5. 2. That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth? 3. The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. --Shak. 4. One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. --Shak. 5. Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. --Abbott. Note: In the United States, both males and females are of age when twenty-one years old. 6. The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. --Abbott. 7. A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." --Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. --Milton. Note: Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle. 8. A great period in the history of the Earth. Note: The geologic ages are as follows: 1. The Arch[ae]an, including the time when was no life and the time of the earliest and simplest forms of life. 2. The age of Invertebrates, or the Silurian, when the life on the globe consisted distinctively of invertebrates. 3. The age of Fishes, or the Devonian, when fishes were the dominant race. 4. The age of Coal Plants, or Acrogens, or the Carboniferous age. 5. The Mesozoic or Secondary age, or age of Reptiles, when reptiles prevailed in great numbers and of vast size. 6. The Tertiary age, or age of Mammals, when the mammalia, or quadrupeds, abounded, and were the dominant race. 7. The Quaternary age, or age of Man, or the modern era. --Dana. 9. A century; the period of one hundred years. Fleury . . . apologizes for these five ages. --Hallam. 10. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." --Pope. The way which the age follows. --J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. --C. Sprague. 11. A long time. [Colloq.] "He made minutes an age." --Tennyson. Age of a tide, the time from the origin of a tide in the South Pacific Ocean to its arrival at a given place. Moon's age, the time that has elapsed since the last preceding conjunction of the sun and moon. Note: Age is used to form the first part of many compounds; as, agelasting, age-adorning, age-worn, age-enfeebled, agelong. Syn: Time; period; generation; date; era; epoch.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Brazen
Bra"sen\, a. Same as Brazen.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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