Definition of brier

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Brier (n.) Alt. of Bria.

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Sweetened :: Sweetbrier (n.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Brere :: Brere (n.) A brier.
Briery :: Briery (a.) Full of briers; thorny.
Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla..
Dumal :: Dumal (a.) Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly..
Brier :: Brier (n.) Alt. of Bria.
Dog-brier :: Dog-brier (n.) The dog-rose.
Eglantine :: Eglantine (n.) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa).
Briar :: Briar (n.) Same as Brier.
Dumous :: Dumous (a.) Abounding with bushes and briers.
Tangle :: Tangle (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively..
Briery :: Briery (n.) A place where briers grow.
Bull Brier :: Bull brier () A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier..
Briered :: Briered (a.) Set with briers.
Umbrere :: Umbrere (n.) Alt. of Umbrier.
Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..
Entangle :: Entangle (v. t.) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers..
Umbriere :: Umbriere (n.) In ancient armor, a visor, or projection like the peak of a cap, to which a face guard was sometimes attached. This was sometimes fixed, and sometimes moved freely upon the helmet and could be raised like the beaver. Called also umber, and umbril..
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