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Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

A seeking for or gathering of berries, esp. of such as grow wild.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

gnon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

A genus (Actæa) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceæ, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.

fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

The fruit of Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle); the shrub itself; -- called also candleberry tree. Bayberry tallow, a fragrant green wax obtained from the bayberry or wax myrtle; -- called also myrtle wax.

A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

See Barberry.

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.

The bilberry. [North of Eng. & Scot.]

See Blaeberry.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places.

The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]

The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.

h a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

The fruit of the Viburnum obovatum, a shrub which grows from Virginia to Florida.