Brine n.
1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. --Cowper.
3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
What a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for
Rosaline! --Shak.
Brine fly Zool., a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.
Brine gauge, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.
Brine pan, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.
Brine pit, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.
Brine pump Marine Engin., a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.
Brine shrimp, Brine worm Zool., a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.
Brine spring, a spring of salt water.
Leach brine Saltmaking, brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.