Definition of "brier" [bri•er]

• Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier. (noun)
• Variant of briar1. (noun)

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• "The man and woman were employed in bruising what was called brier root, which they had dug from the forest, for food."
• "And is Lady S. pulling some kind of brier-patch scenario here?"
• "Heb. hedek (Prov. 15: 19), rendered "brier" in Micah 7: 4."