Definition of brine

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Brine (n.) 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..

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Corn :: Corn (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue..
Well :: Well (v. i.) A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.
Brine :: Brine (n.) The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake..
Briny :: Briny (a.) Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood..
Pebrine :: Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood..
Brine :: Brine (n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
Umbra :: Umbra (n.) Any one of several species of sciaenoid food fishes of the genus Umbrina, especially the Mediterranean species (U. cirrhosa), which is highly esteemed as a market fish; -- called also ombre, and umbrine..
Bittern :: Bittern (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains..
Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay..
Mydaleine :: Mydaleine (n.) A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation..
Colubrine :: Colubrine (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Shrimp :: Shrimp (v.) In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine..
Zebrine :: Zebrine (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra..
Boilery :: Boilery (n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making..
Umbrine :: Umbrine (n.) See Umbra, 2..
Salt :: Salt (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle..
Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To steep or saturate in brine.
Antifebrine :: Antifebrine (n.) Acetanilide.
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