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Definition of Brasses
1. brass [v] - See also: brass
Literary usage of Brasses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society, William Angus Knight, Wordsworth Society (1900)
"NOTES ON THE MONUMENTAL brasses OF MIDDLESEX. BY MILL STEPHENSON, FSA The county
of Middlesex, if the cities of London and Westminster are excluded, ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1907)
"and the brasses to their memory, particularly in Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire,
were of the first importance. The brass student in this case, ..."
3. A Manual of Marine Engineering: Comprising the Designing, Construction, and by Albert Edward Seaton (1886)
"Connecting-rod brasses.—The crank-pin brasses are more severely tried than any
others about an engine, and, therefore, should be most carefully designed, ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Central Committee, Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1846)
"WILLIAM DRAKE, MA THE Eastern counties contain more numerous examples of sepulchral
brasses than any other district of the kingdom, and this fact has often ..."
5. Treatise on Applied Analytical Chemistry by Vittorio Villavecchia (1918)
"Iron brasses The addition of small quantities of iron imparts to brass properties
analogous to those of manganese brasses, and iron brasses have the same ..."
6. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of armour and rubbings of brasses, pp.131. Si.
... Series of photo-lithographs of Monumental brasses in Norfolk. 3 pt. ..."
7. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1891)
"To exhibit thoroughly such differences, a considerable number of brasses must be
... 165 shows one end of a lot of lead-lined brasses which in the Pullman ..."
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