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brine / brīn/ • n. water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt. ∎  seawater: dolphins and whales can't help taking in the odd gulp of brine as they swallow a fish. ∎  technical a strong solution of a salt or salts.• v. [tr.] [often as adj.] (brined) soak in or saturate with salty water: brined anchovies.

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

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brine Salt solutions of varying concentrations used in pickling. ‘Fresh’ brine may have added nitrite; ‘live’ brine contains micro‐organisms that convert nitrate to nitrite (pickling salts).

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition DAVID A. BENDER

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brine A concentrated solution of inorganic salts, formed by the partial evaporation of saline waters. See also GEOTHERMAL BRINE.

A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY

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brine A concentrated solution of inorganic salts, formed by the partial evaporation of saline waters.

A Dictionary of Ecology MICHAEL ALLABY

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brine OE. brīne = MDu. brīne (Du. brijn), of unkn. orig.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

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