BRINE, or PICKLE; water replete with saline particles.
Brine taken out of brine-pits, or brine-pans, used by some for curing or pickling of fish, without boiling the same into salt, and rock salt, without refining it into white salt, are prohibited by 1 Ann. cap. 21.
Brine is either native, as the sea-water, which by coction turns to salt; or factitious, formed by dissolving salt in water. In the salt-works at Upwick in Worcestershire, there are found, at the same time, and in the same pit, three sorts of brine, each of a different strength. They are drawn by a pump; and that in the bottom, first brought up, is called first man; the next, middle man; and the third, last man.