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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

... and bores a hole for a six-inch pipe directly into the salt. A three-inch pipe is let down inside of the six-inch pipe, and water is forced down through the smaller pipe. It dissolves the salt, becomes brine, and rises through the space between the two pipes. It is carried through troughs to some great tanks, and from these it flows into "grain-settlers," then into the "grainers" proper, where the grains of salt settle. At the bottom of the ...

— Diggers in the Earth • Eva March Tappan

... is to be served up as a dainty to the pious in the world to come. The female was put into brine as soon as she was killed, to be preserved against the time when her flesh will be needed.[126] The male is destined to offer a delectable sight to all beholders before he is consumed. When his last hour arrives, God will ...

— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... by a straight line; and having taken a tree on the main land near Castine as his objective point, he kept it in range with the tompion in the stove-pipe, and did not permit the Maud to wabble about. Occasionally the heavy gusts buried the rail in the brine; but Donald did not permit her to dodge it, or to deviate from his inflexible straight line. She went down just so far, and would go no farther; and at these times it was rather difficult to keep on the seat at the weather side of the standing-room. Dick Adams, Norwood, and Rodman ...

— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic

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

... forward sail; and there he was found with his left wrist dislocated, his body strained and sore, and his mind wandering. He was no romantic sight with his red flannel shirt, fishy trowsers, cowhide boots, and hands pickled in brine. Still the ship's surgeon took to him, and found, when Osgood came to himself, that he had taken to a gentleman. He lent him a suit of customary black, and introduced him to his acquaintances. Osgood would have enjoyed ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various

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