ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Lacquered or coated with bronze or some imitation of it; having a bronze-like luster.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 270. Wings dusky, shining with bronzed-green.
c. 1865. G. Gore, in Circ. Sc., I. 233/2. The bronzed mould may now be immersed in the … solution.
2. Bronze-colored, browned, sunburnt.
1748. H. Walpole, Corr. (1820), I. 198. I wish you could see him making squibs … and Bronzed over with a patina of gunpowder.
1847. J. Wilson, Recr. Chr. North (1857), II. 25. The bare and bronzed Egyptian.
1865. Daily Tel., 12 June, 5/4. Each day millions are handed over to the bronzed heroes of Sherman and Grant.
3. Grown shameless, feelingless; hardened.
1841. Emerson, Misc., 187. The most bronzed and sharpened money-catcher.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 114. The Doctor’s bronzed throat!
4. Bronzed Skin, an incurable structural disease of the supra-renal capsules, usually characterized by discoloration of the skin to a dusky brown, smoky, or olive tint, with progressive loss of strength; supra-renal melasma, or Addison’s disease.
