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tate of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

Tears; -- so called from their saltness. What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! Shak. Brine fly (Zoöl.), 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 p…

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

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony. Wiseman.

To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

-- 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 gauge, a glass siphon tube, partly filled with mercury, -- used to indicat…

with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. [R.]