brier

«brier» in Mova's school dictionary: another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (briers)

meaning for a pupil

A brier is another spelling of briar, a prickly bush with thorny stems. tree →

sense in the lessons

in animal tales from the American south, the brier-patch is where the rabbit hides from the fox

examples

• "Don't fling me in that brier-patch," said Brer Rabbit. tree →
• The thorns on the brier scratched the boy's legs. tree →
• The rabbit ran into the brier-patch and was safe. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• With arrows and with bow shall one come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
• Fury is not in Me; would that I were as the briers and thorns in flame!

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «brier» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.