Definition of "brine"

brine

/bɹaɪn/

noun
usually uncountable, plural brines
1. Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
  Quotations
  Philander went into the next room […] and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
2. The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
  Quotations
  Ariell: Not a ſoule But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ; Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire) Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty, And all the Diuels are heere.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii], page 3
  "Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,Rollin" home across the line,The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hatAnd threw it in the brine.
  1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52
verb
third-person singular simple present brines, present participle brining, simple past and past participle brined
1. (transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.
2. (transitive) To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.

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brine

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