brine vs cocktail

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

cocktail

verb
  • To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances. 

  • To treat (a person) to cocktails. 

noun
  • A mixture of other substances or things. 

  • A mixed alcoholic beverage. 

  • A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail. 

  • A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins. 

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