Definition of "braze"

braze¹

/bɹeɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed
1. (transitive) To cover with brass, or as with brass.

/bɹeɪz/

verb
third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed
1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.
noun
plural brazes
1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
  Quotations
  Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons.
  1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144