Word Meanings - BRONZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Bettered
  of Better
• Bell-faced
  Having the striking surface convex; -- said of hammers.
• Beccafico
  A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed on figs, grapes, etc.
• Highering
  Rising higher; ascending.
• Benedictive
  Tending to bless.
• Bedunged
  of Bedung
• ADDLEBRAINEDADDLEHEADEDADDLEPATED
  Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.
• Bergeret
  A pastoral song.
• Begnawn
  of Begnaw
• BENEBEN
  A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
• Bespurt
  To spurt on or over; to asperse.
• Behight
  of Behight
• Beady
  Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
• Bevel
  Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of tim
• Bell metal
  A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells.
• Beclip
  To embrace; to surround.
• Metallicly
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• Beneficially
  In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
• Beechy
  Of or relating to beeches.

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