[f. the adj.]
1. trans. To brazen (out): to face impudently or as with a face of brass. Also with indefinite obj. to brazen it out.
a. 1555. Latimer, Serm. & Rem. To brazen it. [K. Oliphant.]
1679. Hist. Jetzer, Pref. A ij. Father Ireland … brazen’d out the Court, and Hector’s the King’s Evidence with one Witness upon another.
1712. Arbuthnot, John Bull, 86. He would talk saucily, lye, and brazen it out.
1763. Bickerstaff, Love in Village, III. ix. Would you brazen me, too? Take that (boxes him).
1777. Sheridan, Trip Scarb., V. ii. I am resolved to brazen the brunt of the business out.
1873. Dixon, Two Queens, II. X. x. 212. The deed was done, and must be brazened out.
2. trans. To harden, make bold or reckless.
1884. Tennyson, Becket, 193. I fear [they] Are braced and brazen’d up with Christmas wines For any murderous brawl.
