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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Brass or an alloy resembling brass, hammered thin and formerly used in the manufacture of church vessels.
  2. n. A thin sheet of metal, especially of tin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A mixed metal, made of copper and zinc and not practically distinguishable from brass. Such ametal was used throughout the middle ages and later, commonly in thin sheets, for the manufacture of various utensils, and for the brasses of sepulchral monuments. The term appears to be now restricted to kinds of brass that are worked into articles for ecclesiastical use.
  2. n. Same as latten-brass.
  3. n. A sheet-iron plate prepared for tinning, and ranging in thickness from. 020 to. 016 of an inch.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An alloy of copper and tin, similar to bronze, with a sufficient portion of tin to make it a pewter-like color with yellowish tinge (rather than the brownish-gold color of bronze of higher copper content), once used in thin sheets and for domestic utensils and light-duty tools.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of brass hammered into thin sheets, formerly much used for making church utensils, as candlesticks, crosses, etc.; -- called also latten brass.
  2. n. Sheet tin; iron plate, covered with tin; also, any metal in thin sheets.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. brass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensils

Etymologies

  1. From Old French laton, of uncertain origin. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English laton, from Old French, from Arabic lātūn, probably from Old Turkic altun, gold; akin to Mongolian altan. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo tinned iron Mar 26, 2009

  • reesetee :-D Jun 1, 2008

  • bilby Ah, this is why mass is traditionally said in Latin. May 30, 2008

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