A shiny yellowish alloy of copper resembling brass (perhaps a form of the copper-zinc alloy now called brass). In later use (esp. attributive): such…

A mixed metal of yellow colour, either identical with, or closely resembling, brass; often hammered into thin sheets. Now only archaic and Historical.

= maslin, n.1 1.

= orichalcum, n.

Old brass (or copper). Also attributive in shruff brass, shruff metal.

= latten-brass n. at latten, n. 3b.

= maslin, n.1 1. Cf. medley, n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

= maslin, n.1 1 (cf. sense A. 4).

A shiny yellowish alloy of copper resembling brass; = maslin, n.1 1. Cf. medley brass n. at compounds. Obsolete. rare.

shaven latten, a thinner kind than black latten. roll latten, latten polished on both sides ready for use (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).

milled brass in thin plates or sheets, used by braziers and for drawing into wire.

Dutch leaf or Dutch gold made by beating out plates of brass very thin.

An alloy of copper and brass that resembles gold, used in making cheap jewellery.

brass which has been cast after the initial melting together of the constituent metals of the alloy.

A form of brass containing 55–64 per cent copper (often with 1 per cent or more lead), used for casting and working at high temperatures.

†(a) any of various types of brass used for making buttons (obsolete); (b) a device used in polishing metal buttons on a military uniform, etc…

Any of various decorative golden-yellow alloys of copper with zinc and other constituents. Cf. oroide, n.

brass deposited by the action of electricity.

= similor, n.

A type of brass containing about 60 per cent copper, 39 per cent zinc, and one per cent tin, used for bolts and other fittings on ships.