briered

English

Etymology

brier + -ed

Adjective

briered (comparative more briered, superlative most briered)

  1. Set with briers.
    • a., 1770, Thomas Chatterton, Aella
      Harke! the ravenne flappes his wynge, / In the briered delle belowe []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for briered”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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