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English Dictionary: BRACKISH by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
brackish
adj
  1. distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
  2. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"
    Synonym(s): brackish, briny
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Brackish \Brack"ish\, a. [See {Brack} salt water.]
      Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline
      soil.
  
               Springs in deserts found seem sweet, all brackish
               though they be.                                       --Byron.
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