Definition of "briars" [briars]

• Plural form of briar. (noun)

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• "Well might they be called briars, for it was as if a hundred hands were snatching at him."
• "He sometimes coins words, (such as Trifurcifur, gugga, [18] parenticida,) and he is constantly giving new metaphorical senses to those already in use -- as when he speaks of a man being a "hell of elms," _i. e._, severely flogged with elm-rods -- calls cooks "briars," because they take fast hold of everything they touch, and threatens a slave with "memorials of oxen,""
• "July 6th, 2009 and they ran through the bushes and they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles"