from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective Of, relating to, or resembling brine; salty.
noun The sea. Used with the.
from The Century Dictionary.
Pertaining to brine; of the nature of or affected by brine; salt; salty: as, a briny taste; the briny flood; briny tears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing brine; salty
noun The sea
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun any very large body of (salt) water
adjective slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
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Examples
Elsewhere in the issue we visit Washington's spectacular South Puget Sound, a kind of briny Burgundy where every cove and waterway seems to grow its own distinctive shellfish -- each with its own connoisseur following.
Whilst the traditional different places of employment obviously differ (from, the smell of the "briny" with a cooking range being pitched up and down with the ship by the waves; to the unwanted inclusion of sand, leaves and insects in the field; to the salubrious comfort of an air base), the core skills, role and esprit must be common throughout the three Services.
Whilst the traditional different places of employment obviously differ (from, the smell of the "briny" with a cooking range being pitched up and down with the ship by the waves; to the unwanted inclusion of sand, leaves and insects in the field; to the salubrious comfort of an air base), the core skills, role and esprit must be common throughout the three Services.
He wondered if there was soul in those steel-gray eyes that were often quite blue of color and that were strong with the briny airs of the sun-washed deep.
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