Associations to the word «Briery»

Wiktionary

BRIERY, adjective. Alternative spelling of briary
BRIERY, noun. A place where briars grow.

Dictionary definition

BRIERY, adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne