Brine

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  • noun. Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The water of a sea or an ocean.
  • noun. A large body of salt water.
  • noun. Salt water used for preserving and pickling foods.
  • transitive verb. To immerse, preserve, or pickle in salt water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To steep in brine, as corn, in order to prevent smut.
  • To mix salt with; make briny: as, to brine hay.
  • noun. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean; salt water.
  • noun. The sea as a body of salt water; the ocean.
  • noun. Tears.
  • noun. The eyebrow.
  • To bring: as, to brine it hither.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To steep or saturate in brine.
  • transitive verb. To sprinkle with salt or brine.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
  • noun. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
  • noun. a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.
  • noun. an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.
  • noun. a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.
  • noun. a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.
  • noun. a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.
  • noun. a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a spring of salt water.
  • noun. brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling
  • noun. the sea or ocean; the water of the sea
  • verb. To preserve food in a salt solution.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. water containing salts
  • verb. soak in brine
  • noun. a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
  • Word Usage
    "Canned green jackfruit in brine is the young and unripe version of this world's largest fruit, and what you want for this recipe (not the ripe kind you see in with the canned fruit!)."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
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    Equivalent
    Form
    briny  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    douse  dowse  drench  soak  solution  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline  Cline  Combine  Dine  Heine  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pickle  tears  
    verb-form
    brined  brines  brining