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Berry

noun

(pl. berries)

Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves.

A small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry).

United States rock singer (born in 1931). Synonyms: Charles Edward Berry, Chuck Berry.

verb

(past & past part. berried; pres. part. berrying)

Pick or gather berries.

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"Berry" Quotes from Famous Books

... large party of natives at the water, who had been very kind to him, and many of them still remained when we came up. He had observed some of them eating a small acid berry, and had procured a quantity for me in the hope that they would do me good, and while we remained at this place he good-naturedly went into the hills and gathered me a large tureen full, and to the ...

— Expedition into Central Australia • Charles Sturt

... takes his life in his hands. He breaks a path which leads he knows not whither: it may bring him to a shore whence he has no ship to sail from; it may end in an abyss he cannot bridge. The thickets rend and sting him, poison may colour a tempting grain or berry, frost may deaden his energies and lull him to the sleep that knows no waking. He has but little aid from science: beyond food and medicine he carries little more than a watch, a compass, a rifle, and a cartridge belt. Beyond all ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: Explorers • Various

... recessive characters, it would seem extremely probable that the dominance of one set of sexual characters over the other may be determined in some cases at an early stage of development in response to a stimulus which may be either internal or external." So also Berry Hart ("Atypical Male and Female Sex-Ensemble," a paper read before Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, British Medical Journal, June 20, 1914, p. 1355) regards the normal male or female as embodying a maximum of the potent organs of his or her own sex with a minimum of non-potent organs of the other ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... Squire; there ain't a man in their whole church here, from Lord Canter Berry that preaches afore the Queen, to Parson Homily that preached afore us, nor never was, nor never will be equal to Old Minister hisself for 'stealin' the hearts of ...

— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... useless to warn the student that he must be natural. To be natural may be to be monotonous. The little strawberry up in the arctics with a few tiny seeds and an acid tang is a natural berry, but it is not to be compared with the improved variety that we enjoy here. The dwarfed oak on the rocky hillside is natural, but a poor thing compared with the beautiful tree found in the rich, moist bottom lands. Be natural—but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for ...

— The Art of Public Speaking • Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

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