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▪ I. briery, briary, a.|ˈbraɪərɪ|
[f. brier + -y1.]
1. Full of or consisting of thorns or briers; brambly, thorny.
1549Coverdale Erasm. Par. James 28 It taketh no rote in a briery place. 1581J. Studley Seneca's Hippolytus 64 Up and downe the breary Brakes. 1623Sir J. Beaumont Transfigur. in Farr S.P. (1848) 144 By steepe and briery paths ye must ascend. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 223 Over briery enclosures. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (1873) 154 Dews..glist'ning clear, Thro' their brown or briery screen. 1876Blackmore Cripps ii. 11 A briary thicket.
†2. Of or pertaining to briers. Obs. rare.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 31 Her possessors neuer escape briery scratches.
3. fig. Of the nature of briers; vexing.
1604T. Wright Passions i. iii. 11 Those spinie braunches of briarie passions. 1648Earl Westmoreland Otia Sacra (1879) 41 Choak'd with the Brierie Cares of this world. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. II. xxiii. 84 To go forth into the briery and brambly world.
▪ II. † briery, briary, n. Obs.
[f. brier + -y: see -ery.]
A place overgrown with briers.
1552Huloet, Bryary or place where bryars growe. 1585in Academy (1882) 25 Mar., Fifty acres of turbary, sixty acres of scrub and briery. |