transferred and figurative. Resembling brass in colour, sound, etc. (Often to be referred back to Homer's οὐρανὸς χάλκεος, πολύχαλκος, ὄπα χάλκεον.)

Of sound: produced by or as if by the plucking or vibration of a wire; (occasionally of music) †played on string instruments (obsolete); (esp. of a…

Of a sound: resembling that produced by a metal object when struck; sharp and ringing; (esp. of a voice or a cry) harsh and unmusical; (Medicine, of…

A pan made of tin, also attributive in reference to the noise made by beating such.

Of the nature or appearance of brass, in colour, sound, taste, etc.

Resembling the sound of a beaten pan; tinny. Cf. tin-panny adj. at tin pan, n. derivatives.

Like or resembling tin or that of tin; characteristic of tin; esp. of sounds; in Painting, hard, crude, metallic. Also applied dismissively to (a…

Characterized by an excess of treble frequencies or an absence of resonant bass frequencies; tinny.