1. brine(n = noun.substance) saltwater, seawater - water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater"
is a kind of h2o, water
has particulars: red tide
Derived forms verb brine1, adjective briny1
2. brine(n = noun.food) - a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling;
is a kind of solution
Derived forms verb brine1, adjective briny1
brine(v = verb.change) - soak in brine;
is one way to douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse
Derived forms noun brine2, noun brine1
Sample sentences:
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1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters. [1913 Webster]
2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. [1913 Webster]
"Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay." [1913 Webster]
3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness. [1913 Webster]
"What a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for
Rosaline!" [1913 Webster]
1. To steep or saturate in brine. [1913 Webster]
2. To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay. [1913 Webster]
brine, n. & v.
--n.
1 water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
2 sea water.
--v.tr. soak in or saturate with brine.
Etymology:
OE brine, of unkn. orig.
N sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, vasty deep, wave, tide, hydrography, hydrographer, Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad, Nereid, sea nymph, Siren, trident, dolphin, oceanic, marine, maritime, pelagic, pelagian, seagoing, hydrographic, bathybic, cotidal, at sea, on sea, afloat.
VB be pungent, bite the tongue, render pungent, season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil, smoke, chew, take snuff.
N saltiness, niter, saltpeter, brine, salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny, salty as brine, salty as a herring, salty as Lot's wife, salty, racy (indecent), take it with a grain of salt.