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Definition of Briery
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 Briery
1. a. Full of briers; thorny.
2. n. A place where briers grow.
Definition of Briery
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of briary) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Briery
1. brier [adj] - See also: brier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Briery
Literary usage of Briery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of Political Economy by Harriet Martineau (1859)
"briery CREEK. CHAPTER I. THE PHILOSOPHER AT HOME. THE sun,—the bright sun of May
in the western world,—was going down on the village of briery Creek, ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Thorny, spiny, spinous, briery. Spinous, a. See SPINOSE Spiny, я- I. Thorny, ...
spinous, briery grove, shrubbery. 2. Slender. 3. ..."
3. The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Comp. from (1833)
"briery, a. Rough, full of briers. BRIG, *. A square-rigged vessel with two masts.
This claw of vessels are generally employed as merchantmen and cruisers ..."
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