brinen.

Brit.

/brʌɪn/, U.S.

/braɪn/

Forms: Old English bryne, Middle English brin, Middle English briyn, Middle English–1600s bryne, 1500s bryn, (1600s broyn), Middle English– brine.

Etymology: Old English brýne, bríne, corresponding to Middle Dutch brîne (feminine), Dutch brijn neuter, also Flemish brijne, brēne feminine. Ulterior history unknown.

1. Water saturated, or strongly impregnated, with salt; salt water.

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the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > salt

brinea1000

salt watera1000

run1440

brine-water1594

rin1787

a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 128 Salsugo, muria, bryne.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xvii. 6 The lond of briyn [a1425 L.V. saltness].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6348 Siþen þai faand..Water bitter sum ani brin [Fairf. brine, Trin. Cambr. bryne].

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 39 Olde bryne atte tree and vyne a feest is.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 51 Bryne of salt, salsugo.

1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1560) X ij b Take a good quantity of bryn which is made of water and salt.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxi. 578 They keepe and preserue the leaues..in brine or pickle.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §790 Broyn, when it is salt enough, will bear an Egg.

a1640 W. Fenner Contin. Christ's Alarm (1657) 28 God hath been laying rods in brine for thee.

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 1063 Six Tuns of Brine yield one tun of Salt.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) There is sand found in all the Staffordshire brines after coction.

1836 E. Howard Rattlin, the Reefer I. ix. 79 Those were the times of large schools, rods steeped in brine, (actual fact).

2. The water of the sea; the sea. (Chiefly poetic)

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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]

sea-floodc893

brimc937

streamc950

foamOE

mereOE

seaOE

sea of (the) oceanc1300

brookc1400

float1477

strand1513

breec1540

burnc1540

broth1558

Thetisie1600

fishpond1604

brine1605

pond1612

Thetisc1620

brack1627

herring-pond1686

tide1791

black water1816

lave1825

briny1831

salt water1839

blue1861

swan's bath1865

puddle1869

ditch1922

oggin1945

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 78 Such is the Germane Sea..and such th' Arabian Brine.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 212 All but Mariners Plung'd in the foaming bryne .

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King On the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters play'd.

1709 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ (ed. 2) i. 33 While Monsters..lash the foaming Brine.

1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iii. 85 The unluckiest hulk that stems the brine.

1841 H. W. Longfellow Ballad Fr. Fleet vii The great ships..sank like lead in the brine.

3. = Briny tears. poetic.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [noun] > a tear > tears

watereOE

salt waterc1400

moisture?c1425

brine1594

rheum1597

dew1598

lachrymas1602

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F4 Seasoning the earth with showres of siluer brine .

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. ii. 69 Iesu Maria, what a deale of brine Hath washt thy sallow cheekes for Rosaline?

1630 T. Dekker Second Pt. Honest Whore i. 72 I should be well seasond, for mine eyes lye in brine.

Compounds

C1. General, as brine-bath, brine-house, brine-pit, brine-spring, brine-tub, brine-water, brine-well; brine-bound, brine-dripping, brine-soaked, adjs.

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the world > food and drink > food > place for storing food > [noun]

cellar?c1225

larderc1305

pantrya1325

butleryc1325

spencec1386

larder-house1390

aumbrya1398

lardinera1400

meatfettle1440

spinde1481

selyer1483

pantyr?a1500

vault1500

eschansonnery1514

lardrya1552

lard-house1555

coveyc1593

brine-house1594

dispense1622

reservatory1647

provedore1694

ice cellar1735

spring house1755

provision house1787

futtah1834

pataka1842

the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] > salt

brine-spring1594

salt spring1601

the world > matter > liquid > water > [noun] > salt

brinea1000

salt watera1000

run1440

brine-water1594

rin1787

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [adjective] > with salt water

brine-dripping1594

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > well

water piteOE

wellOE

pitOE

pulkc1300

draw-wellc1410

draught-wellc1440

winchc1440

brine-well1594

salt spring1601

sump1680

pump well1699

spout-well1710

sump hole1754

pit-well1756

sink1804

bucket-well1813

artesian well1829

shallow well1877

dip-well1894

garland-well1897

village pump1925

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > utensils for preserving

brine-tub1594

rower-back1641

preserving pan1653

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adjective] > with salt water

brine-soaked1594

the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > containing brine

brine-pit1594

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 129 And made a brine pit with our bitter teares.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. H2^v Look in his Brine-tub, and you shall find there Two stiffe-blew-Pigs-feet.

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 20 It is called a Brine-House, to retain store for Winter Boyling.

1774 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) III. 130 I tasted the brine water, which contains much more salt than the sea water.

1817 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 740 Supposed to be not a common brine spring.

1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 368/2 The Cheshire brine-springs are from twenty to forty yards in depth.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 317 The salt which was obtained by a rude process from brine pits.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 233 Brine-dripping limbs.

1860 G. W. S. Piesse Lab. Chem. Wonders 33 In Cheshire there are salt beds: these produce..brine wells.

1861 W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 419 His brine-soaked coat.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xii. 179 Brine-bound Venice.

C2. Special combinations.

brine-evaporator n. an apparatus for evaporating brine so as to deposit the salt.

brine-gauge n. a salinometer or salt-gauge.

brine-man n. one who superintends the making of brine.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker

weller1440

salt-maker1483

saliner1543

waller1600

salter1606

saltweller1624

wich-waller1670

salt-worker1680

brine-manc1682

brinerc1682

wich-man1688

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 30 A skilful Brineman will govern and direct 3 or 4 Labourers.

brine-pan n. a shallow iron vessel in which brine is evaporated; also, a shallow pit, or basin, in which brine is evaporated by the action of the sun.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > vessels for other specific purposes > [noun] > for evaporating brine

brine-panc1682

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 19 Before it be transmitted into the shallow Brine-Pans.

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brine-pump n. a pump used for removing the brine which collects at the bottom of a steamer's boilers.

brine-pumper n.

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1904 Daily Chron. 18 Aug. 6/7 The accounts..show that during the past year a rate of 2d. upon all brine pumpers realised £3,921.

brine-pumping n.

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1900 Daily News 27 July 8/5 Great Damage by Brine Pumping.

brine-seeth n. a salt boilery.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > place of

wich716

saltern858

salt-housec1000

wich-work1298

salt-cotec1425

wich-house1534

walling-house1556

salt-works1566

marsh-work1587

saltfata1647

salt-makinga1647

salt-pan1708

brine-seeth1748

seal1756

rope-house1850

walling shed1894

saltery1899

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) II. 385 Middlewich..noted for making Salt; where are two excellent Brine-seeths.

brine-shrimp n. (see quot.).

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp

beard1611

shrimplet1688

garnel1694

water shrimp1745

pandle1746

brine-shrimp1836

brine-worm1836

squilloid1852

well shrimp1853

glass-crab1855

shrimp1856

snapping shrimp1941

1836 Penny Cycl. V. 343/1 The Brine-worm or Brine-shrimp, Cancer Salinus of Linnæus..is about half an inch in length.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 74 At Lymington in Hampshire, the reservoirs of concentrated brine are always peopled by..a sort of shrimp..commonly known as the brine shrimp.

brine-smeller n. one who examines a district with a view to the discovery of beds of salt.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > prospector > type of

garimpeiro1812

pocket hunter1872

pocket miner1872

brine-smeller1878

grub-staker1880

sourdough1898

1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 558 A ‘brine smeller’..expressed his belief that mines might be opened.

brine-valve n. a valve in a boiler which is opened to allow the escape of water saturated with salt.

brine-worm n. = brine-shrimp n.

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