Brine; a solution of salt and water, sometimes impregnated with spices, in which flesh, fish or other substance is preserved; as pickle for beef; pickle for capers or for cucumbers; pickle for herring.

A thing preserved in pickle.

A state of condition of difficulty or disorder; a word used in ridicule or contempt. You are in a fine pickle. How cam’st thou in this pickle?

A parcel of land inclosed with a hedge.

To preserve in brine or pickle; as, to pickle herring.

To season in pickle.

To imbue highly with any thing bad; as a pickled rogue.