Noun: brine
| Singular | brine |
| Plural | brines |
Sample Sentences
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Do you want a can of tuna in oil or in brine?
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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. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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Ariell: Not a ſoule
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But felt a Feauer of the madde, and plaid
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Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners
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Plung'd in the foaming bryne, and quit the veſſell ;
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Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonne Ferdinand
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With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire)
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Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty,
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And all the Diuels are heere. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 3:]
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"Ho, aboard the Salt Junk Sarah,
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Rollin" home across the line,
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The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat
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And threw it in the brine. [1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 52:]
Nouns inflected like brine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English brine, bryne, from Old English brīne, from Proto-West Germanic *brīnā, from Proto-Germanic *brīnǭ (“salt water, brine”) (compare Scots brime, West Frisian brein, Dutch brijn (“brine”), West Flemish brijne), of unknown ultimate origin, but probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to cut, maim”).
2. Cognates include Old Irish ro·bria (“may hurt, damage”), Latin friāre (“to rub, crumble”), Slovene bríti (“to shave, shear”), Albanian brej (“to gnaw”), Sanskrit बृणाति (bṛṇā́ti, “they injure, hurt”).
3. Alternatively, from Proto-Indo-European *mriHnós, from *móri (compare Latin marīnus). See: Middle English Nouns '
brine', Old English Nouns '
brīne', Dutch Nouns '
brijn', Latin Nouns '
friāre', Latin Nouns '
marīnus'.
Verbs referencing "brine"
Irish Nouns
braon.