adj. & v.
--adj.
1. (also brazen-faced) flagrant and shameless; insolent.
2 made of brass.
3 of or like brass, esp. in colour or sound.
--v.tr. (foll. by out) face or undergo defiantly.
Phrases and idioms:
brazen it out be defiantly unrepentant under censure.
Derivatives:
brazenly adv. brazenness n.
Etymology: OE br{aelig}sen f. br{aelig}s brass