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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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BRONZE, n.
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 print, a bronze, a flower, a root. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of
bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.
Boldness; impudence; "brass."
Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium. -- Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. -- Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface. -- Phosphor bronze ***and] Silicious or Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity. 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.
The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his
forehead. Bronzed skin disease. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease. | ||||||||