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Wearied. [Poetic]

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

See Aerie. Drayton.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd. No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists. Sir W. Scott.

To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.

Act of befriending. [R.]

Furnished with berries; consisting of a berry; baccate; as, a berried shrub.

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

ese; -- so called from the district in France where it is made; --called also fromage de Brie.

Short in duration. How brief the life of man. Shak.

Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.

Concisely; in few words.

One who makes a brief.

The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. The thorns and briers of reproof. Cowper. Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; -- used for tobacco pipes. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier.…

Set with briers. Chatterton.

Full of briers; thorny.

sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.