Obs. Also berie. [App. related to OE. beru, berwes, ME. BERWE grove, mod. Bere in Beere Regis, etc.; but Harrington’s form is not phonetically explicable.] See quot.

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1591.  Harrington, Ariosto, XLI. lvii. The cell … had … Upon the western side a grove or berrie [ed. 1634 berie; Ital. bosco].

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