ppl. a. [f. BRIER v. or sb. + -ED.] Caught or entangled in briers; bound or covered with briers. Also fig.
a. 1554. Hooper, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxxvii. 20. As the shepherd is careful of his entangled and briered sheep.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., II. App. (1852), 183. New England was miserably briared in the perplexities of an Indian war.
a. 1823. Bloomfield, Poems (1845), 50. New-briar’d graves.
