unbriny

See also: un-briny

English

Etymology

un- +‎ briny

Adjective

unbriny (comparative more unbriny, superlative most unbriny)

  1. Not briny.
    • 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:
      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.
    • November 10, 1917, Willard Connely, The Independent, Volume 92, "Making Sailors without Ships", Independent Publications, pages 299-300
      This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.
    • 1965, Robert L. Gale, Plots and characters in the fiction and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Archon Books, page 154:
      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.
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