Definition of brine

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Brine (n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness.

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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..
Marinade :: Marinade (n.) A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish..
Brine :: Brine (n.) Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
Fibrine :: Fibrine (a.) Belonging to the fibers of plants.
Salina Period :: Salina period () The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology..
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..
Boilery :: Boilery (n.) A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making..
Trimethylamine :: Trimethylamine (n.) A colorless volatile alkaline liquid, N.(CH3)3, obtained from herring brine, beet roots, etc., with a characteristic herringlike odor. It is regarded as a substituted ammonia containing three methyl groups..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine..
Well :: Well (v. i.) A shaft made in the earth to obtain oil or brine.
Artemia :: Artemia (n.) A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
Colubrine :: Colubrine (a.) like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.
Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To steep or saturate in brine.
Colubrine :: Colubrine (a.) Like a snake; cunning; crafty.
Dipsas :: Dipsas (n.) A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.
Brine :: Brine (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay..
Umbrine :: Umbrine (n.) See Umbra, 2..
Pebrine :: Pebrine (n.) An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood..
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..
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..
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