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Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
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Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
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The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
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A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Examples of brier in a Sentence
In sussex it grows as freely as any Brier.
Kathy Brier began her tenure on One Life to Live in 2002 in the role of Marcie Walsh.
Brier's performance as Marcie earned her a Daytime Emmy Award nomination in 2004 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Brier also appeared as Tracy Turnblad in the Broadway musical Hairspray.
Sweet Brier (A Rose Selection Rubiginosa) - It is a native Rose, but also distributed through much of Europe and Asia, and, although often planted, is scarcely ever made enough of in country places.
The newspaper won its first of many Pulitzer Prizes in 1934 for a story that reporter Royce Brier wrote on the lynching deaths of two alleged San Jose kidnappers.