Brier
['braɪə]
Definition
(noun.) tangled mass of prickly plants.
(noun.) a thorny stem or twig.
Edited by Bessie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Briar
Typist: Tabitha
Definition
n. a prickly shrub: a common name for the wild rose: (Scot.) the thorn of the brier—also Brī′ar.—adjs. Brī′ery Brī′ered having briers.
n. the white heath a shrub grown in France from the root of which tobacco-pipes are made: a pipe of this wood.
Typed by Clint
Examples
- A nice old brier with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Editor: Pasquale