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The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

Like brine; somewhat salt; saltish. "Brinish tears." Shak.

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

A salt of bromic acid.

A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.

. Many species inhabit tropical America. -- Bush tit (Zoöl.), a small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. P. minimus inhabits California.

A salt of butyric acid.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Holding lime or other earthy salts; as, the calcigerous cells of the teeth.

A salt of camphoric acid.

A salt of capric acid.

A salt of caproic acid.

A salt of caprylic acid.

acid (Chem.), an amido acid, NH2.CO2H, not existing in the free state, but occurring as a salt of ammonium in commercial ammonium carbonate; -- called also amido formic acid.

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

A salt of carbazotic or picric acid; a picrate.

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpeter, sulphur, and kieselguhr.