brine

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride.
2. n. The water of a sea or an ocean.
3. n. A large body of salt water.
4. n. Salt water used for preserving and pickling foods.
5. v. To immerse, preserve, or pickle in salt water.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean; salt water. Artiflicial brine is used for the preservation of the flesh of animals, fish, vegetables, etc.
2. n. The sea as a body of salt water; the ocean.
3. n. Tears.
4. To steep in brine, as corn, in order to prevent smut.
5. To mix salt with; make briny: as, to brine hay.
6. n. The eyebrow.
7. To bring: as, to brine it hither.
8. n. In refriger., a solution of alkaline salts in water, which has a solidifying point below the temperature at which the solution is to be used.

Wiktionary

1. n. salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling
2. n. the sea or ocean; the water of the sea
3. v. transitive To preserve food in a salt solution.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
2. n. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
3. n. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
4. v. To steep or saturate in brine.
5. v. To sprinkle with salt or brine.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. water containing salts
2. v. soak in brine
3. n. a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling