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Definition of Brininess
1. Noun. The relative proportion of salt in a solution.
Definition of Brininess
1. n. The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.
Definition of Brininess
1. Noun. The characteristic of being briny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brininess
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brininess
Literary usage of Brininess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Wanderer in London by Edward Verrall Lucas (1906)
"... ploughs her glorious way through a dark blue sea of indescribable buoyancy
and brininess. This is the kind of picture that, were I wealthy enough, ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"He- came to the- United States in 1819 and engaged in the hardware brininess
until 1840 in St. Louis, where he continued to re-side until his death. ..."
3. A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, and by Edward Granville Browne (1893)
"I only remained amongst them one night, and, beyond the bitter brininess of the
bright-looking streams at which I strove to quench my thirst, and the horror ..."
4. The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870)
"... activity of all the absorbent surfaces in summer, and the intense brininess
of the lake as revealed by the analyses made during Stansbury's expedition. ..."
5. Irishmen All by George A. Birmingham (1913)
"The life of that great city retains all the sharp brininess of pure sea-water.
It is clear of any muddy doubtfulness about the entire righteousness or utter ..."
6. Along French Byways by Clifton Johnson (1912)
"though the place has a salt-water flavor, for genuine brininess you have to
descend to a hamlet hugging the shore far down the slope. ..."
7. A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora by David Moore Lindsay (1911)
"... of the captain, landed at brininess. A sceond, in charge of Alex. Bain, a
harpooner, arri vc(1 at ..."
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