brinily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

briny +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

brinily (comparative more brinily, superlative most brinily)

  1. In a briny or salty way.
    • 1914, Thomas Hardy, In Front of the Landscape:
      O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish.