brine

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Water saturated with or containing large amounts of a salt, especially sodium chloride.
• noun The water of a sea or an ocean.
• noun A large body of salt water.
• noun Salt water used for preserving and pickling foods.
• transitive verb To immerse, preserve, or pickle in salt water.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt, like the water of the ocean; salt water.
• noun The sea as a body of salt water; the ocean.
• noun Tears.
• To bring: as, to brine it hither.
• To steep in brine, as corn, in order to prevent smut.
• To mix salt with; make briny: as, to brine hay.
• noun The eyebrow.
• noun 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.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To steep or saturate in brine.
• transitive verb To sprinkle with salt or brine.
• noun 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.
• noun The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
• noun Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
• noun (Zoöl.) a fly of the genus Ephydra, the larvæ of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.
• noun an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.
• noun a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.
• noun a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.
• noun (Marine Engin.) a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.
• noun (Zoöl.) a phyllopod crustacean of the genus Artemia, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See Artemia.
• noun a spring of salt water.
• noun (Saltmaking) brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling
• noun the sea or ocean; the water of the sea
• verb transitive To preserve food in a salt solution.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun water containing salts
• verb soak in brine
• noun a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling