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- Brine - 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.
- Brine - n. - The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
- Brine - n. - Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
- Brine - v. t. - To steep or saturate in brine.
- Brine - v. t. - To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
- Graduator - n. - An apparatus for diffusing a solution, as brine or vinegar, over a large surface, for exposure to the air.
- Artemia - n. - A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.
- Pickle - v. t. - Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
- Shrimp - v. - In a loose sense, any small crustacean, including some amphipods and even certain entomostracans; as, the fairy shrimp, and brine shrimp. See under Fairy, and Brine.
- Trona - n. - A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum.
- Boilery - n. - A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.
- Brine - v. t. - To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
- Bittern - a. - The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
- Sauerkraut - n. - Cabbage cut fine and allowed to ferment in a brine made of its own juice with salt, -- a German dish.
- Marinade - n. - A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.
- Salt - v. i. - To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
- Corn - v. t. - To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.