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Webster 1913 Edition
Berry
Ber′ry
,Noun.
pl.
Berries
. [OE.
berie
, AS. berie
, berige
; akin to D. bes
, G. beere
, OS. and OHG. beri
, Icel. ber
, Sw. bär
, Goth. basi
, and perh. Skr. bhas
to eat.] 1.
Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
2.
(Bot.)
A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry.
3.
The coffee bean.
4.
One of the ova or eggs of a fish.
Travis.
In berry
, containing ova or spawn.
Ber′ry
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Berried
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Berrying
.] To bear or produce berries.
Webster 1828 Edition
Berry
BER'RY
,Noun.
1.
A succulent or pulpy fruit, containing naked seeds. Or in more technical language, a succulent pulpy pericarp, or seed vessel, without valves, containing several seeds, which are naked, that is, which have no covering but the pulp and rind. It is commonly round or oval. This botanical definition includes the orange and other like fruits. But in popular language, berry extends only to the smaller fruits, as strawberry, gooseberry, &c.,containing seeds or granules.2.
A mound. [for barrow.]BER'RY
,Verb.
I.