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Brine

Brine

1. Water saturated or strongly inpregnated 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.

2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . He lay. (Cowper)

3. Tears; so called from their saltness.

(Science: medicine) What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! (Shak) brine fly, brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

Origin: as. Bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. Brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See burn.


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