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1. n. An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.
2. n. an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding
3. An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, or Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.] TOM ' BEDLAM Tom o' Bed"lam. Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, Eng.; hence, a wandering mendicant, either mad or feigning to be so; a madman; a bedlamite.
4. An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containingabout 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, or Dutch, brass.It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves issometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes whitetombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]
5. n an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding