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Brine

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.

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Douse 76% connected

To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse; to dowse.

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Dowse 76% connected

To plunge, or duck into water; to immerse; to douse.

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Drench 76% connected

To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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Soak 76% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Solution 76% connected

The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.

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Sop 76% connected

Anything steeped, or dipped and softened, in any liquid; especially, something dipped in broth or liquid food, and intended to be eaten.

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Souse 76% connected

A corrupt form of Sou.

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Water 76% connected

The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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Briny 74% connected

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

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Briny 74% connected

Of or pertaining to brine, or to the sea; partaking of the nature of brine; salt; as, a briny taste; the briny flood.

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Bromine 70% connected

One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a…

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I 70% connected

In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it.

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Iodine 70% connected

A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metalli…

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Na 70% connected

No, not. See No.

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Potassium 70% connected

An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite,…

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Sodium 70% connected

A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy,…

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