brass

A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.

A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications.

A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; a band or the section of an orchestra that features such instruments.

A few measures later, the brass comes in strong!

Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.

The color of brass (etymology 1 sense 1).

Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass.

Of the color of brass.

Impertinent, bold: brazen.

At the Council board, I hope to charge him with that he cannot answer, and yet I know his face is brass enough.

[...] he continued in the same insulting strain. "If you were not quite brass, you would know it is not proper to be making promises you dare not tell of."

Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments.

Grindoff, the miller, 'and the leader of a very brass band of most unpopular performers, with a thorough base accompaniment of at least fifty vices,' was played by Miss Saunders.

I must confess that to me there is something almost pathetic in the sight of a body of bluejackets improving their muscles on the quarter deck by bar-bell exercise, accompanied by a brass — a very brass — band, [...]

Of inferior composition.

As Honest Plush Brannon then, Mr. Beery is one of San Francisco's fancier con men and hence more brass than plush

To coat with brass.