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English
English : variant of Brier.German : Americanized form of Breuer.
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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 : 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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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 : variant spelling of Brier.
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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 : 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 : of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Brierley.
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a.
Abounding with bushes and 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.
A place where briers grow.
n.
Same as Brier.
a.
Set with briers.
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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.
n.
The dog-rose.
a.
Pertaining to, or set with, briers or bushes; brambly.
n.
A 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.
a.
Full of briers; thorny.