Obs. exc. dial. [f. OE. beorʓ hill: a variant of BARROW sb.1 (While the nom. gave ME. beruh, berw, barw, barow, the dat. beorʓe, with palatalized ʓ, gave berȝe, beryhe, berye.)] A mound, hillock or barrow.
c. 1205. Lay., 12311. Vnder ane berhȝe.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 589. Thanne shaltow blenche at a berghe.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., II. iii. 36. Heigh derie derie, Trill on the berie.
c. 1563. Thersytes, in Four O. Plays (1848), 79. We shall make merye and synge tyrle on the berye.
1613. W. Browne, Brit. Past., I. ii. (1772), I. 56. Piping on thine oaten reede Upon this little berry (some ycleep A hillocke).
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 195. Removing the potatoes to the caves, heaps … ricks, or berrys (for by all such terms they are known in this country).
¶ It is doubtful whether the quotation belongs to this or to BERRY3.
a. 1700. Dryden, Ovid’s Art Love, I. 103. The theatres are berries for the fair, Like ants on molehills thither they repair.
