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noun
1.
water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt.
2.
a salt and water solution for pickling.
3.
the sea or ocean.
4.
the water of the sea.
5.
Chemistry. any saline solution.
verb (used with object)
6.
to treat with or steep in brine.
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Brining
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brȳne; cognate with Dutch brijn
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brȳne; cognate with Dutch brijn
Related forms
brine·less, adjective
brin·er, noun
brin·ish, adjective
brin·ish·ness, noun
un·brined, adjective
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Word Origin & History
brine
O.E. bryne, origin unknown; no known cognates beyond Du. brijn, Flem. brijne.
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