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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

brinily en · ADV

Etymology

From briny + -ly.

Meanings

  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. 1914, Thomas Hardy, In Front of the Landscape:

Forms

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more brinily Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most brinily Degree=Sup lexicographic