(card games) A card game played with four players playing as two teams of two players each.

Alternative spelling of briar

Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to breaking the law. / That which seduces; seduction; allurement.

(transitive) To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something against his/her original will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble.

A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. / The sea or ocean; the water of the sea.

(transitive) To preserve food in a salt solution. / (transitive) To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution.

A woman in the context of her own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married. / (obsolete, figuratively) An object ardently loved.

(obsolete) to make a bride of

an individual loop or other device connecting the patterns in lacework