Definition of Briary

1. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"


Definition of Briary

1. Adjective. Like a briar; thorny. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Briary

1. briar [adj] - See also: briar

Lexicographical Neighbors of Briary

brianite
brianroulstonite
brianyoungite
briar pipe
briard
briards
briared
briarroot
briarroots
briars
briartite
briarwood
briarwoods
bribable
bribe
bribeable
bribed
bribee
bribees
bribeless
briber
briberies
bribers
bribery
bribes
bribetaking
bribing

Literary usage of Briary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"THE briary- BUSH by Floyd Dell Author of "Moon Calf" by almost universal ... THE briary-BUSH is a separate story from Moon-Calf and decision of the re- book ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"My word, the Laird of briary Wood, with its waving holms of wheat and barley, ... such a hairst he will reap from his peat hags, as briary Wood and all ..."

3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Crabbed- ness ; thorny or briary perplexity. SPI NOUS, (spi'-nus) a. Thorny ; full of SPINK, ... Thorny; briary ; perplexed; difficult; troublesome. ..."

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