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BRINE

Volume 1 · 92 words · 1771 Edition

water replete with saline particles; or pickle.

BRINE-water, a salt water, which being boiled, turns into salt.

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 Anne, cap. xxi.

BRINGING-IN a horse, in the menage, the same as to say, keep down the nose of a horse that boars, and tosses his nose in the wind; this is done by means of a good branch. See BANQUET, and WIND.