丰年虾；鳃足虫

[ noun ]
common to saline lakes
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Brine \Brine\, n. [AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr.
brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See {Burn}.]
1. 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. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.

Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay.
--Cowper.

3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.

What a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for
Rosaline! --Shak.

{Brine fly} (Zo["o]l.), a fly of the genus {Ephydra}, the
larv[ae] of which live in artificial brines and in salt
lakes.

{Brine gauge}, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a
liquid.

{Brine pan}, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed
by cristallization.

{Brine pit}, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken
to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.

{Brine pump} (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water
in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which
collects at the bottom.

{Brine shrimp}, {Brine worm} (Zo["o]l.), a phyllopod
crustacean of the genus {Artemia}, inhabiting the strong
brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See
{Artemia}.

{Brine spring}, a spring of salt water.

{Leach brine} (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated
salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.