Defn: Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the color of which is near to that of brass.
Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a translation for copper or some kind of bronze.
Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry. 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.
BRASSAGE
Bras"sage, n. Etym: [F.]
Defn: A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; — now called seigniorage.
BRASSART
Bras"sart, n. Etym: [F. brassard, fr. bras arm. See Brace, n.]
Defn: Armor for the arm; — generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.
BRASSE Brasse, n. Etym: [Perh. a transposition of barse; but cf. LG. brasse the bream, G. brassen Cf. Bream.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.
BRASSETS
Bras"sets, n.