Brine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride.
  • n. The water of a sea or an ocean.
  • n. A large body of salt water.
  • n. Salt water used for preserving and pickling foods.
  • v. To immerse, preserve, or pickle in salt water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling
  • n. the sea or ocean; the water of the sea
  • v. To preserve food in a salt solution.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
  • n. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
  • v. To steep or saturate in brine.
  • v. To sprinkle with salt or brine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. water containing salts
  • v. soak in brine
  • n. a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
  • Equivalent
    brine worm   
    Antonym
    desalinate    debrine   
    Verb Form
    brined    brines    brining   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    douse    soak    souse    drench    dowse    sop    solution   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    briny   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pickle    tears   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    vinegar    seawater    sea-water    sulphur    tar    turpentine    ammonia    saltwater    salt    sweat