n. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean; salt water.n. The sea as a body of salt water; the ocean.n. Tears.To steep in brine, as corn, in order to prevent smut.To mix salt with; make briny: as, to brine hay.n. The eyebrow.To bring: as, to brine it hither.n. In refriger., a solution of alkaline salts in water, which has a solidifying point below the temperature at which the solution is to be used.