Salt, briny, brackish. ? Obsolete.

Of a somewhat salt or saline taste; partly fresh, partly salt.

= brackish, adj.

Of the nature of brine; somewhat briny, saltish; of or pertaining to the sea. †brinish brink n. the sea-shore.

Of or pertaining to brine or to the sea; saturated with salt.

Brackish. (In Chandler, perhaps ‘of alkaline taste’.)

Brackish; alkaline.