brass foil

Brass \Brass\, n.; pl. {Brasses}. [OE. bras, bres, AS. br[ae]s;
   akin to Icel. bras cement, solder, brasa to harden by fire,
   and to E. braze, brazen. Cf. 1st & 2d {Braze}.]
   1. An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable
      proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to
      one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely
      other metals.
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   2. (Mach.) A journal bearing, so called because frequently
      made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal,
      when the latter is generally called a white metal lining.
      See {Axle box}, {Journal Box}, and {Bearing}.
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   3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze. [Obs.]
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            Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your
            purses, nor scrip for your journey.   --Matt. x. 9.
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   4. Impudence; a brazen face. [Colloq.]
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   5. pl. Utensils, ornaments, or other articles of brass.
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            The very scullion who cleans the brasses.
                                                  --Hopkinson.
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   6. 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.
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   7. pl. (Mining) Lumps of pyrites or sulphuret of iron, the
      color of which is near to that of brass.
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   Note: The word brass as used in Sculpture language is a
         translation for copper or some kind of bronze.
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   Note: Brass is often used adjectively or in self-explaining
         compounds; as, brass button, brass kettle, brass
         founder, brass foundry or brassfoundry.
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   {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}.
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Dutch \Dutch\, a. [D. duitsch German; or G. deutsch, orig.,
   popular, national, OD. dietsc, MHG. diutsch, tiutsch, OHG.
   diutisk, fr. diot, diota, a people, a nation; akin to AS.
   pe['o]d, OS. thiod, thioda, Goth. piuda; cf. Lith. tauta
   land, OIr. tuath people, Oscan touto. The English have
   applied the name especially to the Germanic people living
   nearest them, the Hollanders. Cf. {Derrick}, {Teutonic}.]
   Pertaining to Holland, or to its inhabitants.
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   {Dutch auction}. See under {Auction}.

   {Dutch cheese}, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim
      milk.

   {Dutch clinker}, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is
      yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape.

   {Dutch clover} (Bot.), common white clover ({Trifolium
      repens}), the seed of which was largely imported into
      England from Holland.

   {Dutch concert}, a so-called concert in which all the singers
      sing at the same time different songs. [Slang]

   {Dutch courage}, the courage of partial intoxication. [Slang]
      --Marryat.

   {Dutch door}, a door divided into two parts, horizontally, so
      arranged that the lower part can be shut and fastened,
      while the upper part remains open.

   {Dutch foil}, {Dutch leaf}, or {Dutch gold}, a kind of brass
      rich in copper, rolled or beaten into thin sheets, used in
      Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also {Dutch
      mineral}, {Dutch metal}, {brass foil}, and {bronze leaf}.
      

   {Dutch liquid} (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid,
      {C2H4Cl2}, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal
      odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or
      olefiant gas; -- called also {Dutch oil}. It is so called
      because discovered (in 1795) by an association of four
      Hollandish chemists. See {Ethylene}, and {Olefiant}.

   {Dutch oven}, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or
      kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron
      kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

   {Dutch pink}, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in
      distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.

   {Dutch rush} (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or
      {Equisetum} ({Equisetum hyemale}) having a rough,
      siliceous surface, and used for scouring and polishing; --
      called also {scouring rush}, and {shave grass}. See
      {Equisetum}.

   {Dutch tile}, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly
      much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the
      like.
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   Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.
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               Germany is slandered to have sent none to this
               war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that
               other pilgrims, passing through that country,
               were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for
               their pains.                       --Fuller.
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