brinyn.
/ˈbrʌɪni/, U.S. /ˈbraɪni/ colloquial or jocular.
With the. The sea, the ocean.
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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
1831 J. Banim Smuggler I. xii. 276 What is he to do without a sharp 'un to chaffer with the Parleys across the briney?
1831 J. Banim Smuggler III. 40 He was seen at t'other side of the briny.
1865 Slang Dict. Briney, the sea.
1888 H. Evans Brighton Beach Loafer (ed. 3) i. 6 Tales of unutterable woe and adventures undergone on the ‘briny’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
brinyadj.1
/ˈbrʌɪni/, U.S. /ˈbraɪni/ a. Of or pertaining to brine or to the sea; saturated with salt.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [adjective] > brackish or briny
bracka1522
brackisha1552
bracky1582
brinish1594
briny1612
breachy1662
brak1793
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 172 Those two renowned Wyches, The Nant-wyche, and the North; whose either brynie Well, For store and sorts of Salts, make Weeuer to excell.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 7 I stood Upon the Margin of the briny Flood.
1801 S. Turner Hist. Anglo-Saxons II. iii. i. 33 Vast solitudes and briny marshes.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 73 Fresh water is constantly distilled from the briny ocean.
b. Applied to tears.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > [adjective] > shed in weeping > attributes of tears
saltc1175
wanc1540
brinish1580
briny1608
shrill1608
swellinga1616
sea-salt1897
1608 T. Davison in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign Elizabeth (1845) II. 330 A bryney showre Of teares.
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. ix. 18 Down his wan Cheek a briny Torrent flows.
1728 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy Ilka briny tear Ye shed for him.
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brinyadj.2
Phosphorescent, (perhaps) phosphorescence (of the sea). Perhaps also as noun.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [adjective] > phosphorescent > of the sea
briny1602
the world > matter > light > light emitted under particular conditions > [noun] > phosphorescence > of the sea > phosphorescent light on or in the sea
briny1602
sea-light1755
sea-fire1815
milky sea1821
mareel1866
mar-fire1881
milk sea1898
witch-fire1947
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 26v If the sea-water bee flashed with a sticke or Oare, the same casteth a bright shining colour, and the drops thereof resemble sparckles of fire, as if the waues were turned into flames, which the Saylers terme Briny.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall Briny, phosphorescent.
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