Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BER'RY, n. [Sax. beria, a grape or cluster of grapes; berga, a grape stone, a berry.]

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 or 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 smaller fruits, as strawberry, gooseberry, &c. containing seeds or granules.
2. A mound. [For barrow.] – W. Browne.