Brine

1. v. t. To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
2. n. 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.
3. n. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
4. n. Tears; — so called from their saltness.
5. v. t. To steep or saturate in brine.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.