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brier or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier , and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture of smoking pipes.

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brier1, briar1 prickly bush OE.; species of wild rose XVI. OE. (Angl.) brēr, (WS.) brǣr, of unkn. orig.

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