or, as the French call it, yellow copper, is a factitious metal, made of copper and zinc, or lapis calaminaris. See Chemistry, Of zinc.

Corinthian Brass has been famous in antiquity, and is a mixture of gold, silver, and copper. L. Mummius having sacked and burnt the city of Corinth, 146 years before Christ, it is said this metal was formed from the immense quantities of gold, silver and copper wherewith that city abounded, thus melted and run together by the violence of the conflagration.

Brass-colour, one prepared by the braziers and colourmen to imitate brass. There are two sorts of it, the red brass, or bronze and the yellow or gilt brass: The latter is made only of copper-flings, the smallest and brightest that can be found; with the former they mix some red ochre, finely pulverized; they are both used with varnish.