brine spring (brin spring)

A spring of salt IMG:content-2549.png:[graphic] water. brimstony (brim'stō-ni), a. [ IMG:content-2550.png:[blocks in formation] OFries. brenga , bring a = = D. brengen = OHG. and fiery," B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 5. [Rare.] brine-worm (brin'werm), n. Same as brinebrin1t, v. An obsolete variant of burn1. Chaucer. brin2 (brin), n. [F., a blade, shoot; origin unknown.] One of the radiating sticks of a fan. brincht (brinch), v. i. [Also written brince, early mod. E. brynch, also brindice, brandie, a name often given to cows in Scotland); the vowel modified, appar. after Icel. brönd in deriv. bröndöttr, brinded, as a cow, for * brandōttr (cf. brand - kro ōttr, brinded with a white cro on the forehead), She tamed the brinded lione And spotted mountain-pard. Milton , Comus, 1. 443. The brinded catamount, that lies High in the boughs to watch his prey. 2. In her ., spotted: bearing. Bryant, Hunter of the Prairies. said of a beast used as a brindle (brin'dl), n. [A umed from brindled .] 1. The state of being brinded; a color or mix- ture of colors, of which gray is the base, with bands of a darker gray or black color: as, "a natural brindle ," Richardson , Clari a Harlowe. - 2. A name of the mudfish or bowfin, Amia calva . See cut under Amiida . brindled (brin'dld), a. [A kind of dim. form of brinded.] Brinded; variegated with streaks of different colors. And there the wild-cat's brindled hide The frontlet of the elk adorns. Scott, L. of the L., i. 27.