[f. BRINE sb.] To treat with brine: to steep, soak, pickle, wet, suffuse with brine.
Hence Brined ppl. a.
1552. Huloet, Bryned or layde in powder, or salte water.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 167. Some corneth, some brineth.
1608. Merry Devil Edm., in Dodsley (1780), V. 261. I’ll make the brined sea to rise at Ware.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 39. ’Tis yearly practiced thus to brine their Fields.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1752), 156. I had wheat brined and limed for sowing.
1822. Beddoes, Bride’s Trag., I. i. His cheeks with grief y-brined.
c. 1842. Lance, Cott. Farm., 11. Two and a half bushels of Wheat to the acre, after brining and liming.
1883. Standard, 3 Aug., 6/7. Hides … brined at full prices; salted at last sale’s rates.
