bronze

A naturally occurring or man-made alloy of copper, usually in combination with tin, but also with one or more other metals.

How little gives thee joy or pain; A print, a bronze, a flower, a root.

A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.

A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.

A bronze medal; third place.

She wanted to win the tournament, but had to settle for the bronze after being beaten in the semi-finals.

Boldness; impudence.

Embrown'd with native bronze, lo! Henley stands.

Made of bronze metal.

The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.

Having a reddish-brown colour.

Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.

That girl was dynamite. Dark hair with killer blue eyes, bronze skin, and an exquisite full-figured body.

To plate with bronze.

My mother bronzed my first pair of baby shoes.

To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.

The sun was so low that its level rays shot through the tunnels of the forest and bronzed its ceiling of woven leaves when Bess returned to the clearing.

North is the bay of Acre, lovely in shape, and, far, far beyond, the cloudy vision of Hermon, its huge landscape now only attainable with a police pass—beautifully solitary except for good-looking young men of the police patrols, all fit and bronzed.

To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

His skin began to bronze as he worked in our garden each day.

To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

the lawyer who bronzes his bosom instead of his forehead

To finish in third place; to win a bronze medal.

Louganis' runner-up count was 822.09, and Boggs bronzed at 783.78.

Her speedskating teammate, Leah Poulos, captured a 1000m silver in 1976, behind Tatiana Averina of the Soviet Union, who also took the gold in the 3000m and bronzed in the 500m and the 1500m.