Briar vs. Friar — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Briar and Friar
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Briar
Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose.
Friar
A friar is a brother and a member of one of the mendicant orders founded in the twelfth or thirteenth century; the term distinguishes the mendicants' itinerant apostolic character, exercised broadly under the jurisdiction of a superior general, from the older monastic orders' allegiance to a single monastery formalized by their vow of stability. The most significant orders of friars are the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians and Carmelites.
Briar
A tobacco pipe made from woody nodules borne at ground level by a large woody plant of the heather family.
Friar
A member of a usually mendicant Roman Catholic order.
Briar
The tree heath, which bears the nodules from which briar pipes are made.
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Friar
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
Briar
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.
Friar
A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
Briar
A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) in the heath family, whose woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes. Also called tree heath.
Friar
An American fish, the silverside.
Briar
A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
Friar
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
Briar
Variant of brier1.
Friar
A white or pale patch on a printed page.
Briar
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Friar
An American fish; the silversides.
Briar
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Friar
A male member of a religious order that originally relied soley on alms
Briar
The white heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Briar
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Briar
Same as Brier.
Briar
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Briar
A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
Briar
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Briar
A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
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