[f. BRINE sb. + -Y1.]

1

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

2

1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xi. 172. Those two renowned Wyches, The Nant-wyche and the North, whose either brynie well For store and sorts of Salts make Weever to excell.

3

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., II. 32. I stood Upon the Margin of the briny Flood.

4

1799.  S. Turner, Anglo-Sax. (1840), I. IV. i. 263. Vast solitudes and briny marshes.

5

1878.  Huxley, Physiogr., 73. Fresh water is constantly distilled from the briny ocean.

6

  b.  Applied to tears.

7

1608.  T. Davison, in Farr’s S. P. (1845), II. 330. A bryney showre Of teares.

8

1718.  Pope, Iliad, IX. 18. Down his wan cheek a briny torrent flows.

9

1728.  A. Ramsay, Robt., Richy, & S. Ilka briny tear Ye shed for him.

10