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Bronze

1. To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze powder, or by other means; to make of the colour of bronze; as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals. The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. (W. Black)

2. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen. The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead. (Sir W. Scott) bronzed skin disease. See addisons disease.

Origin: cf. F. Bronzer. See bronze.