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Definition of Brier
1. Noun. Tangled mass of prickly plants.
2. Noun. A thorny stem or twig.
3. Noun. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
Generic synonyms: Rose, Rosebush
4. Noun. A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
Group relationships: Genus Smilax, Smilax
Generic synonyms: Vine
Derivative terms: Briary
5. Noun. Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
Generic synonyms: Erica, True Heath
Terms within: Briarroot
Definition of Brier
1. n. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
Definition of Brier
1. Noun. A thorny Mediterranean shrub. ¹
2. Noun. A pipe made from the roots of that shrub. ¹
3. Noun. (figuratively) Any unpleasantry in general. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brier
1. a thorny shrub [n -S] : BRIERY [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brier
Literary usage of Brier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"B brier Good Friday ECAUSE, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm Bends back the
brier that edges life's long way. That no hurt comes to heart, ..."
2. Classic German Course in English / by William Cleaver Wilkinson by William Cleaver Wilkinson (1887)
"And the willful youth he brake brier-rose on the heather, brier-rose fought and
wound did make, Her bestead not cry of ache, And he knew no tether. ..."
3. Poetry, Lyrical, Narrative and Satirical, of the Civil War by Richard Grant White (1866)
"My pipe it is only a knot from the root of the brier-wood tree; But it turns my
heart to the northward: Harry, give it to me. And I 'm but a rough at best, ..."
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