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briered, briared, ppl. a.|ˈbraɪəd|
[f. brier v. or n. + -ed.]
Caught or entangled in briers; bound or covered with briers. Also fig.
a1554Hooper in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxvii. 20 As the shepherd is careful of his entangled and briered sheep. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. App. (1852) 183 New England was miserably briared in the perplexities of an Indian war. a1823Bloomfield Poems (1845) 50 New-briar'd graves. |