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▪ I. brackish, a.|ˈbrækɪʃ|
Also 6 brakkische, brachish, 7 brakish.
[f. brack a. + -ish1.]
1. Of a somewhat salt or saline taste; partly fresh, partly salt.
1538Leland Itin. VII. 139 The Water is a litle brakkische. 1594Marlowe Dido i. ii, The southern wind with brackish breath. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 83 Fresh Water he call'd it, but we found it brackish. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 128 This saltness increases until the water becomes decidedly brackish.
2. fig. and transf.
a. Spoilt by mixture, as of sea-water with fresh.
b. Nauseous, distasteful.
c. Nautical (quots. 1867 and 1881).
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vi. (1632) 514 Retaining at this day the [English] language..though brackish with the mixture of vulgar Irish. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. Introd. 7 The pithy conciseness of the brackish tongue renders it eminently useful on duty. 1871Rossetti Dante at Ver. lv, The bread..Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares. 1881Smyth Cycle Celest. Obj. (ed. 2) 2 Certain brackish rhymes.
▪ II. † ˈbrackish, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. brackish a.]
trans. To render brackish.
1637Heywood Dial. Jup. & Io Wks. 1874 VI. 267 O, brackish not your waters with your teares. |