Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bronzed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bronze \Bronze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bronzed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bronzing}.] [Cf. F. bronzer. See {Bronze}, n.]
1. To give an appearance of bronze to, by a coating of bronze
powder, or by other means; to make of the color of bronze;
as, to bronze plaster casts; to bronze coins or medals.
The tall bronzed black-eyed stranger. --W. Black.
2. To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.
The lawer who bronzes his bosom instead of his
forehead. --Sir W.
Scott.
{Bronzed skin disease}. (Pathol.) See {Addison's disease}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bronzed
adj : (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun; "a
young bronzed Apollo" [syn: {browned}, {suntanned}, {tanned}]
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