brass (n.)
- aide
- aide-de-camp
- arch
- aristocracy
- aureate
- band
- baritone
- baron
- barrow
- bigwig
- board
- boodle
- brashness
- bread
- brigadier
- bronze
- bucks
- bugle
- bust
- cabbage
- cabinet
- cadre
- cairn
- captain
- celebrity
- cenotaph
- cheek
- chips
- chutzpah
- clarion
- colonel
- column
- combo
- commandant
- commander
- confidence
- copper
- cornet
- council
- cream
- cromlech
- cross
- crust
- cup
- dignitary
- dignity
- dinero
- directorate
- directory
- dolmen
- dough
- effrontery
- elder
- elite
- ensemble
- establishment
- euphonium
- exec
- face
- father
- figure
- gall
- gelt
- general
- generalissimo
- gilt
- gold
- golden
- grave
- gravestone
- grease
- green
- group
- headstone
- helicon
- heroics
- horn
- hubris
- improvidence
- imprudence
- impudence
- indiscretion
- infrastructure
- injudiciousness
- inscription
- insolence
- interests
- iron
- jack
- kale
- lead
- lieutenant
- lion
- lur
- magnate
- major
- management
- marker
- marshal
- mausoleum
- megalith
- memento
- memorial
- menhir
- mogul
- monolith
- monument
- moolah
- mound
- nabob
- name
- necrology
- nerve
- nickel
- nobility
- notability
- notable
- obelisk
- obituary
- officer
- ointment
- oof
- orchestra
- overconfidence
- overlapping
- panjandrum
- personage
- personality
- pewter
- pillar
- plaque
- power
- presumption
- prize
- pyramid
- quartet
- quicksilver
- quintet
- rashness
- reliquary
- remembrance
- rhino
- ribbon
- rocks
- rudeness
- sachem
- sackbut
- saxhorn
- serpent
- sextet
- shaft
- shekels
- shrine
- silver
- simoleons
- sirdar
- somebody
- something
- sousaphone
- steel
- stela
- stone
- strings
- stupa
- subaltern
- sublieutenant
- sugar
- symphony
- tablet
- temerity
- testimonial
- tin
- tomb
- tombstone
- tope
- trio
- trombone
- trophy
- trumpet
- tuba
- tycoon
- unwariness
- wampum
- woodwind
- worthy
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
