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Definition of Briary
1. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"
Similar to: Armed
Derivative terms: Barbel, Briar, Bristle, Bristliness, Burr, Prickle, Prickliness, Seta, Spininess, Thorn, Thorniness
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
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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