To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.
To preserve food in a salt solution.
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.
To coagulate, make curdled or semi-solid such as gel or jelly.
To change from a liquid to solid state, perhaps due to cold; called to freeze in nontechnical usage.
To become congealed, solidify.
To make rigid or immobile.