brass foil

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brass foil - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     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.
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     3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.]
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              Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your
              purses, nor scrip for your journey.   --Matt. x. 9.
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     4. Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.]
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     5. pl. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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              The very scullion who cleans the brasses.
                                                    --Hopkinson.
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     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.
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     7. pl. (Mining) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the
        color of which is near to that of brass.
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     Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a
           translation for copper or some kind of bronze.
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     Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
           compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass
           founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry.
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     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.
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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.
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     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.
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     Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.
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                 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.
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