▪ I. berried, a.
(ˈbɛrɪd)
[f. berry n. + -ed2.]
1. Having or bearing berries.
| 1794 T. Gisborne Walks Forest (1796) 112 While the keen thrush the berried twig invades. 1860 Ruskin Mod. Paint. V. vi. x. 99 The berried shrubs. 1871 M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. ii. 42 Red-berried holly. |
2. Formed as or consisting of a berry; baccate.
| 1824 Blackw. Mag. XV. 169 Bushes hung with berried fruits. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 130 Fruit either berried or membranous. 1851 Balfour Bot. §550 Baccate or berried is applied to all pulpy fruits. |
3. Bearing eggs; ‘in berry.’ Cf. berry n.1 3.
| 1868 Macm. Mag. Nov. 18 Lobster-sauce..improved by ‘berried hens,’ that is by female lobsters full of eggs. |
▪ II. † ˈberried, ppl. a. Obs.
Forms: 4 beryd, berid, 6 beryed, -ied, buried, (barrowid).
[f. berry v.1 + -ed1.]
Beaten; threshed; trodden, beaten as a path.
| 1382 Wyclif Num. xx. 19 Bi the beryd [1388 comynli usid] weye we shulen goon. ― Jer. xviii. 15 Thei go bi them in a weye not berid [1388 not trodun]. 1557 Wills & Inv. N.C. I. 158 In beryed corn in the barne viijd. 1569 Richmond. Wills (1853) 218 Haver barrowid and unbarrowed. 1570 Wills & Inv. N.C. I. 341 Otes buried eight lode . xxs.—in vnberied whete xiiij thraves . xxs. |