Meanings of bryony in English

The bryony leaves had turned, some were pale buff already.

No wonder they believe in the efficacy of a similar attenuation of bryony or pulsatilla.

This explains the pre-eminently conchological aspect of the magical properties of the mandrake and the bryony.

Here were marvellous stone carvings of a hundred English trees: hawthorn, oak, blackthorn, wormwood, cherry and bryony.

Lungwort and bryony and comfrey and yarrow.

On the bushes in the hedge hang the vines of the bryony, bearing thick masses of red berries.

It is often observed that the tendrils of this bryony coil both ways, with and against the sun.

Bines of bryony hold the ankles, and hazel boughs are stiff and not ready to bend to the will.

And crimson-berried bryony garlands glow

And white bryony would reduce fevers in humans, but for faeries it was extremely effective in staving off freezing.

The roots of white bryony and of arum, I am informed lose much of their acrimony by boiling.]

As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.

Little John was crouched in the ditch: the dead grasses, 'gicks,' withered vines of bryony, the thistles, and dark shrivelled fern concealed him.

With red hips and haws, red bryony and woodbine berries, these together cause the sense rather than the actual existence of a tawny tint.

Certainly the general look of several poisonous kinds tells us to beware of them, such as the wild bryony, for instance, and the nightshades.

The first gives most fascinating facts about such a common plant, for example, as the hedge bryony and the circular motion of its tendrils.