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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brazen \Bra"zen\, a.[OE. brasen, AS. br[ae]sen. See {Brass}.]
     1. Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, brass.
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     2. Sounding harsh and loud, like resounding brass.
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     3. Impudent; immodest; shameless; having a front like brass;
        as, a brazen countenance.
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     {Brazen age}.
        (a) (Myth.) The age of war and lawlessness which succeeded
            the silver age.
        (b) (Arch[ae]ol.) See under {Bronze}.
  
     {Brazen sea} (Jewish Antiq.), a large laver of brass, placed
        in Solomon's temple for the use of the priests.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brazen \Bra"zen\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Brazened}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Brazening}.]
     To carry through impudently or shamelessly; as, to brazen the
     matter through.
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           Sabina brazened it out before Mrs. Wygram, but inwardly
           she was resolved to be a good deal more circumspect.
                                                    --W. Black.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  brazen
       adj 1: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick
              to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious
              display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles
              Times; "bold-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the
              modern world with its quick material successes and
              insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of
              progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: {audacious}, {barefaced},
               {bodacious}, {bold-faced}, {brassy}, {brazen-faced},
              {insolent}]
       2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
       v : face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  231 Moby Thesaurus words for "brazen":
     Titian, adust, affront, arrant, arrogant, auburn, audacious,
     aureate, aweless, barefaced, bay, bay-colored, bayard, beard,
     bell the cat, bite the bullet, blaring, blatant, blatting,
     blustering, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brash,
     brass, brassy, brave, brawling, brazen out, brazenfaced, bronze,
     bronze-colored, bronzed, bronzy, brownish-red, bumptious, callous,
     calloused, candid, case-hardened, castaneous, challenging, cheeky,
     chestnut, chestnut-brown, chintzy, choked, clamant, clamorous,
     clamoursome, clanging, clangorous, clattery, coarse, cocky,
     colorful, confront, conscienceless, contemptuous, contumelious,
     copper, copper-colored, coppery, cracked, croaking, croaky, crude,
     cupreous, cuprous, daring, defiant, defying, derisive, disdainful,
     disregardful, dry, exhibitionistic, extravagant, face,
     face the music, face up, face up to, ferrous, ferruginous,
     flagrant, flaring, flashy, flaunting, forward, foxy, fresh, front,
     garish, gaudy, gilt, glaring, gold, gold-filled, gold-plated,
     golden, gorgeous, greatly daring, gruff, guttural, hard, hardened,
     hardhearted, harsh, harsh-sounding, heartless, henna, hoarse,
     hubristic, husky, immodest, impertinent, improvident, imprudent,
     impudent, incautious, indiscreet, indurated, injudicious, insolent,
     inured, iron, ironlike, lead, leaden, liver-brown, liver-colored,
     livid-brown, lost to shame, loud, lurid, mafficking, mahogany,
     meet, meet boldly, meet head-on, mercurial, mercurous,
     meretricious, metallic, nickel, nickelic, nickeline, noiseful,
     noisy, notorious, obdurate, obstreperous, obtrusive, open,
     outspoken, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, oversure,
     overweening, pert, pewter, pewtery, procacious, quicksilver,
     rackety, ragged, rash, raucid, raucous, reddish-brown,
     regardless of consequences, rip-roaring, roan, rough, roupy, rowdy,
     rubiginous, rude, rufous, run the gauntlet, russet, russety, rust,
     rust-colored, rusty, sassy, saucy, screaming, seared, sensational,
     set at defiance, shameless, silver, silver-plated, silvery,
     speak out, speak up, spectacular, squawking, squawky, stand up to,
     steel, steely, stertorous, strangled, strepitant, strepitous,
     sunburned, swaggering, tawdry, temerarious, terra-cotta, thick,
     throaty, tin, tinny, tinsel, tumultuous, turbulent, unabashed,
     unashamed, unblushing, unchary, unembarrassed, unmodest, unwary,
     uproarious, vociferous, vulgar
  
  

















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