brine

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, brȳne, from Proto-Germanic *brīnijaz, *brīnaz (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”) (compare Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bhrīṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”)).

Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mrīnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: brīn, IPA(key): /bɹaɪn/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪn

Noun[edit]

brine (usually uncountable, plural brines)

  1. Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling.
    Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
  2. The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.
    • 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii[1]:
      Not a soul
      But felt a fever of the mad, and play'd
      Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
      Plung'd in the foaming brine and quit the vessels,
      Then all afire with me: the king's son Ferdinand,
      With hair up-staring—— then like reeds, not hair——
      Was the first man that leapt, cried 'Hell is empty,
      And all devils are here.'

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brine (third-person singular simple present brines, present participle brining, simple past and past participle brined)

  1. (transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution.

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Noun[edit]

brine f

  1. plural of brina

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