English English Dictionary

Alt. of Brontolith

An aerolite.

A treatise upon thunder.

A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

Boldness; impudence; "brass."

To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

of Bronze

An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze.

Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

of Bronze

A material for bronzing.

The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes.

One who makes, imitates, collects, or deals in, bronzes.