'Brass foil' definitions:

Definition of 'Brass foil'

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  • Brass \Brass\, n.; pl. Brasses. [OE. bras, bres, AS. br[ae]s; akin to Icel. bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire, and to E. braze, brazen. Cf. 1st & 2d Braze.]
  • 1. An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mach.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, nor scrip for your journey. --Matt. x. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 5. pl. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass. [1913 Webster]
  • The very scullion who cleans the brasses. --Hopkinson. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. A brass plate engraved with a figure or device. Specifically, one used as a memorial to the dead, and generally having the portrait, coat of arms, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. pl. (Mining) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a translation for copper or some kind of bronze. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry. [1913 Webster]
  • Brass band (Mus.), a band of musicians who play upon wind instruments made of brass, as trumpets, cornets, etc.
  • Brass foil, Brass leaf, brass made into very thin sheets; -- called also Dutch gold. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'brass foil'

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  • Dutch \Dutch\, a. [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig., popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG. diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS. pe['o]d, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have applied the name especially to the Germanic people living nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. Derrick, Teutonic.] Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants. [1913 Webster]
  • Dutch auction. See under Auction.
  • Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk.
  • Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.
  • Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover ({Trifolium repens}), the seed of which was largely imported into England from Holland.
  • Dutch concert, a so-called concert in which all the singers sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]
  • Dutch courage, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang] --Marryat.
  • Dutch door, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened, while the upper part remains open.
  • Dutch foil, Dutch leaf, or Dutch gold, a kind of brass rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also {Dutch mineral}, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf.
  • Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called also Dutch oil. It is so called because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four Hollandish chemists. See Ethylene, and Olefiant.
  • Dutch oven, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.
  • Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.
  • Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (Equisetum hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; -- called also scouring rush, and shave grass. See Equisetum.
  • Dutch tile, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the like. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Dutch was formerly used for German. [1913 Webster]
  • Germany is slandered to have sent none to this war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that other pilgrims, passing through that country, were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for their pains. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]