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Horn :: Horn (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape..

Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..

Brass :: Brass (n.) 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..

Mestling :: Mestling (n.) A kind of brass. See Maslin.

Cole :: Cole (n.) A plant of the Brassica or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of B. oleracea called rape and coleseed.

Brassy :: Brassy (a.) Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass..

Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..

Caldron :: Caldron (n.) A large kettle or boiler of copper, brass, or iron. [Written also cauldron.].

Brasse :: Brasse (n.) A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch..

Brazier :: Brazier (n.) An artificer who works in brass.

Orichalceous :: Orichalceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass..

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like..

Brazen :: Brazen (a.) Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass..

Erucic :: Erucic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc..

Navew :: Navew (n.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica..

Brassets :: Brassets (n.) See Brassart.

Chalcopyrite :: Chalcopyrite (n.) Copper pyrites, or yellow copper ore; a common ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur. It occurs massive and in tetragonal crystals of a bright brass yellow color..

Brass-visaged :: Brass-visaged (a.) Impudent; bold.

Brass :: Brass (n.) Impudence; a brazen face.

Orichalch :: Orichalch (n.) A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc..

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