briny


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Synonyms for briny

slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)

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Salt--that eminently "briny chap"--having been discovered in a cloud of tobacco-smoke at the Anchor Tavern, Mr.
Grant lovely song and celebrate the holy race of the deathless gods who are for ever, those that were born of Earth and starry Heaven and gloomy Night and them that briny Sea did rear.
Some of our officers likewise saw a herd apparently drinking the briny fluid from a salina near Cape Blanco.
1) The light-witted birds of the air, the beasts of the weald and the wood He traps with his woven snare, and the brood of the briny flood.
A new high-resolution technique has revealed that RSLs at four locations on Mars contain salt minerals that precipitate from briny water.
The existence of briny water may explain a phenomenon observed by Mars orbiters called "recurring slope lineae," which are dark streaks on slopes that appear and grow during the planet's warm season.
The titanium housing provides protection from virtually any harsh environment, particularly seawater, brackish (briny water) and aggressive chemicals where stainless steel is unsuitable.
Berkeley Heights, NJ, May 20, 2014 --(PR.com)-- The little seaside town of Briny Deep has a secret...Can you guess what it is?
It was hard enough to breath, air spiked with briny sweat-laced stench, our black shirts blacker in our pits, damped cuffs around our wrists.
Clark noted that the beer is best paired with chocolate, salted caramel, roasted lamb, briny cheese, and smoked meat.
punctuating a beautiful or terror-filled enterprise in a briny
But if the season of eating, drinking and being merry leaves you with a desire to leap in the bracing briny here's where and when.
She plucks a note from the briny, and is determined to find the author, who turns out to be a ship-building widower (Kevin Costner, left).
of park benches, the briny weed of solstices and changing trees.