Also 1 brasian, 6 brasen. [OE. brasian, f. bræs, BRASS; but as no examples are found in ME., the 16th c. verb may have been formed anew on the analogy of glaze, graze.]
1. trans. To make of brass; to cover or ornament with brass.
[c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., xxxvi. 215. Aero, ic brasiʓe.]
1552. Huloet, Brasen, or make with brasse, æro.
1611. Cotgr., Brouzer, to Braze; to make of, or couer with, brasse.
c. 1615. Chapman, Odyss., XV. (R.). A caldron or a tripod, richly braz’d.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 278. To braze or cover with brass.
2. fig. a. To make hard like brass, harden, inure; b. ‘to harden to impudence’ (J.) (Cf. brazen-faced. But some view this as a sense of BRAZE v.2, taken as = harden in the fire.)
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. iv. 37. And let me wring your heart … If damned Custome haue not braz’d it so, That it is proofe and bulwarke against Sense.
1608. Armin, Nest Ninn. (1842), 1. I am brazed by your fauours, made bould in your ostended curtesies.
1616. Breton, Good & Bad (1616), 31. His face is brazed that he cannot blush.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, iii. 62. You reply nothing, but new braze your face.
1833. Fraser’s Mag., VIII. 707. Custom has so brazed the whole fraternity to these nefarious practices.
3. transf. To color like brass.
1864. W. W. Story, Roba di R., xix. 402. The sunset brazes with splendour the throbbing sky.
1866. Lowell, Poet. Wks. (1879), 372. Clouds That braze the horizon’s western rim.
