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Bron`cho-pneu*mo"ni*a (&?;), n. [Bronchus + pneumonia.] (Med.) Inflammation of the bronchi and lungs; catarrhal pneumonia.

Bron"cho*tome (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; windpipe + &?; to cut.] (Surg.) An instrument for cutting into the bronchial tubes.

Bron*chot"o*my (&?;), n. (Surg.) An incision into the windpipe or larynx, including the operations of tracheotomy and laryngotomy.

||Bron"chus (&?;), n.; pl. Bronchi (&?;). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; windpipe. Cf. Bronchia.] (Anat.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

Bron"co (&?;), n. Same as Broncho.

Brond (&?;), n. [See Brand.] A sword. [Obs.]

{ Bron"to*lite (&?;), Bron"to*lith (&?;), } n. [Gr. &?; + -lite, -lith.] An aërolite. [R.]

Bron*tol"o*gy (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; thunder + -logy.] A treatise upon thunder.

||Bron`to*sau"rus (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; thunder + &?; lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

||Bron`to*the"ri*um (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; thunder + &?; beast.] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

||Bron`to*zo"um (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; thunder + &?; animal.] (Paleon.) An extinct animal of large size, known from its three-toed footprints in Mesozoic sandstone.

The tracks made by these reptiles are found eighteen inches in length, and were formerly referred to gigantic birds; but the discovery of large bipedal three-toed dinosaurs has suggested that they were made by those reptiles.

Bronze (&?;), n. [F. bronze, fr. It. bronzo brown, fr. OHG. br&?;n, G. braun. See Brown, a.] 1. An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are brittle, as in bell metal and speculum metal.

2. A statue, bust, etc., cast in bronze.

A print, a bronze, a flower, a root. Prior.

3. A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze.

4. Boldness; impudence; "brass."

Imbrowned with native bronze, lo! Henley stands. Pope.

Aluminium bronze. See under Aluminium. -- Bronze age, an age of the world which followed the stone age, and was characterized by the use of implements and ornaments of copper or bronze. -- Bronze powder, a metallic powder, used with size or in combination with painting, to give the appearance of bronze, gold, or other metal, to any surface. -- Phosphor bronze ∧ Silicious or Silicium bronze are made by adding phosphorus and silicon respectively to ordinary bronze, and are characterized by great tenacity.

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.

Bronze"wing` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) An Australian pigeon of the genus Phaps, of several species; -- so called from its bronze plumage.

Bronz"ine (&?;), n. A metal so prepared as to have the appearance of bronze. -- a. Made of bronzine; resembling bronze; bronzelike.

Bronz"ing, n. 1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson.

2. A material for bronzing.