Lexicographical Neighbors of Briming
Literary usage of Briming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"(briming.) Properties. Colourless, strongly refracting oil. (Ettling.) Sp. gr.
... (briming.) It is more viscid than oil of turpentine. (Williams. ..."
2. Transactions by Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (1851)
"The fishermen, knowing this, will wait the briming time, to discover what possibly
may have escaped their observation during the day. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"briming. The name given to those scintillations of light in the sea waves at
night, produced by several species of entomostraca, medusa?, &c., when excited. ..."
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