What is the name meaning of BRIER. Phrases containing BRIER
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BRIER
Female
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Briar, BRIER means "briar plant."
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English
English : variant of Brierley.
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English
English : habitational name from Brierton in County Durham (formerly in West Yorkshire) or Brearton in North Yorkshire, which are both named with Old English brēr ‘briar’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, or Brereton in Cheshire, which has the same origin (see Brereton).
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Brierley.John Brearly came from Yorkshire, England, to Trenton, NJ, in 1680.
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English
English : variant of Brier.German : Americanized form of Breuer.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places called Brierl(e)y, in the West Midlands, West and South Yorkshire, and elsewhere, all of which are named with Old English brǣr ‘briar’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a briar patch, Middle English brere. This was also applied as a nickname for a prickly, difficult person.Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McBriar (see McBrayer).Americanized form of German Breuer.
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English
English : variant spelling of Brier.
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English
English : of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Brierley.
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Australian, Christian, Finnish, German, Indian, Modern, Scottish, Swedish
Light; Sun-ray; God is My Oath; Pledged to God; My God is a Vow
Girl/Female
Hindu
A devoted one, Tender, Woman of magdala, To be present in latent
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English
English : variant of Chaffee.
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Indian
Heart with Mercy
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Arabic
Lucky
Male
English
Anglicized form of Hebrew Tsuwph, ZOPHAI means "flow, overflow," hence "honey as dropping." In the bible, this is the name of an ancestor of Elkanah.
Biblical
a man excelling others
Boy/Male
Hebrew Biblical
Gathers.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sikh
Absorbed in God's Love
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English
English : from Middle English hap(pe) ‘chance’, ‘luck’, ‘fortune’ (from Old Norse happ), applied as a nickname for someone considered fortunate or well favored. Compare Chance, Fortune.German, Dutch, and northern French (Picardy) : from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Old French happe ‘hook’, ‘hatchet’, ‘pruning hook’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such implements or for someone who used one in his work. Compare Heppe.German : from a reduced form of the medieval German personal names Hadebald or Hadebert (see Happel).
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BRIER
a.
Full of briers; thorny.
n.
Same as Brier.
v. t.
To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to insnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to puzzle; as, to entangle the feet in a net, or in briers.
n.
A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.
n.
The dog-rose.
n.
A brier.
n.
Alt. of Briar
v.
A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively.
a.
Abounding with bushes and briers.
n.
A place where briers grow.
a.
Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
a.
Set with briers.