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noun

Brine n.

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.

2.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. "Not long beneath the whelming brine... he lay."

3.

Tears; so called from their saltness. "What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline!"

Brine fly (Zool.), a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvae of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.

Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.

Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.

Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.

Brine pump (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.

Brine shrimp, Brine worm (Zool.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.

Brine spring, a spring of salt water.

Leach brine (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

verb

Brine v. t.

1.

To steep or saturate in brine.

2.

To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.

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"Brine" Quotes from Famous Books

... lake, the island-studded, where The breeze of May, grown strong with sea-brine, stirs The seashore strewn with seaweed far away, The Fates cast me ...

— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas

... at Caboceira, opposite the house of a Portuguese gentleman well known to all Englishmen, Joao da Costa Soares, we put in brine cocks, and cleaned and painted her bottom. Mr. Soares appeared to us to have been very much vilified in a publication in England a few years ago; our experience proved him to be extremely kind and obliging. All the members of the Expedition who passed Mosambique ...

— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

... to be held to expel him from the Church, for "professing, against God and his own soul, so perverse and wicked a doctrine." To the ancients all beyond the region they had traversed was an unknown land, clothed in darkness, crowded with mystery and allurement. Across the weltering wastes of brine, in a halcyon sea, the Hindu placed the White Isle, the dwelling of translated and immortalized men.8 Under the attraction of a mystic curiosity, well might the old, ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... gathered on her hills, never saw. Mysterious, invisible, it cleaved the air and smote the mightiest blows of combat the world had ever witnessed. The good people of San Francisco saw little and understood less. They saw only a million and a half tons of brine-cleaving, thunder-flinging fabrics hurled skyward and smashed back in ruin to sink into the sea. It was all over in five minutes. Remained upon the wide expanse of sea only the Energon, rolling white and ...

— Revolution and Other Essays • Jack London

... the blast, or skimming over the tops of the maddening waves—'Mercy upon him! he must be drowned!' I exclaimed, as my eyes fell upon a poor wretch who appeared to be striving to reach the shore; he was upon his legs but was evidently half-smothered with the brine; high above his head curled a horrible billow, as if to engulf him for ever. 'He must be drowned! he must be drowned!' I almost shrieked, and dropped the book. I soon snatched it up again, and now my eye lighted on a third picture: again a shore, but what a sweet and lovely ...

— The Pocket George Borrow • George Borrow

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