Brinily

adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a briny or salty way.

    "O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish."

Example

More examples

"O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent, / Some as with smiles, / Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled / Over the wrecked Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish."

Etymology

From briny + -ly.

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