Dictionary entry

Bronze (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bronze, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bronzed (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Bronzing.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See Bronze, n.] 1. 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.

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. (Pathol.) See Addison's disease.