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Word Meanings - BRASSY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.

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  • IMPUDENT
    Bold, with contempt or disregard; unblushingly forward; impertinent; wanting modesty; shameless; saucy. More than impudent sauciness. Shak. When we behold an angel, not to fear Is to be impudent. Dryden. Syn. -- Shameless; audacious; brazen;
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • BRASS-VISAGED
    Impudent; bold.
  • BRASS
    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. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • HARDNESS
    The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes. (more info) 1. The quality or state of
  • BRASSICACEOUS
    Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • BRASSY
    1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
  • BRASSINESS
    The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • BRASSIERE
    A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • BRASSICA
    A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage , broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip ; the common turnip ; the rape of coleseed , etc.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • REAPPEARANCE
    A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
  • CONSIGNATURE
    Joint signature. Colgrave.

 

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