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unbriny en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + briny.

Meanings

1. Not briny.
   • This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest. November 10, 1917, Willard Connely, The Independent, Volume 92, "Making Sailors without Ships", Independent Publications, pages 299-300
   • The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about. 1965, Robert L. Gale, Plots and characters in the fiction and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Archon Books, page 154:
   • Among the accidents on this unbriny sheet of water, but which has unavoidably crept in under this heading, was the loss of an ox belonging to David Barnhart. 1883, Dennis Byron Waite, O-neh-da Te-car-ne-o-di: or, Up and down the Hemlock, G.E. Colvin & G.P. Wait, page 65:

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