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The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.

Acetanilide.

like or related to snakes of the genus Coluber.

Belonging to the fibers of plants.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

See Umbra, 2.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine.

A colorless liquid prepared from herring brine and containing amines, used as a local antiseptic.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

A place and apparatus for boiling, as for evaporating brine in salt making.

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 sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.

A genus of harmless colubrine snakes.

A stream or spring of fresh water. He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. Shak.

, an instrument for measuring the quantity of rain at any given place. -- Salt gauge, or Brine gauge, an instrument or contrivance for indicating the degree of saltness of water from its specific gravity, as in the boilers of ocean steamers. -- Sea gauge, an instrument for finding the depth of the sea. -- Siphon gau…