Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BRINE, n. [Sax. bryne, brine, and a burning, from brennan, to burn.]

1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean. Artificial brine is used for the preservation of the flesh of animals, fish, vegetables, &c.
2. The ocean or sea. – Milton.
3. Tears, so called from their saltness. – Shak. Leach brine is brine which drops from corned salt in drying, which is preserved to be boiled again. – Encyc.