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Webster 1913 Edition

Bury

Bur′y

(bĕr′ry̆)
,
Noun.
[See 1st
Borough
.]
1.
A borough; a manor;
as, the
Bury
of St. Edmond’s
; –
used as a termination of names of places;
as, Canter
bury
, Shrews
bury
.
2.
A manor house; a castle.
[Prov. Eng.]
To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called
bury
, in some parts of England.
Miege.

Bur′y

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Buried
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Burying
.]
[OE.
burien
,
birien
,
berien
, AS.
byrgan
; akin to
beorgan
to protect, OHG.
bergan
, G.
bergen
, Icel.
bjarga
, Sw.
berga
, Dan.
bierge
,
Goth
.
baírgan
. √95. Cf.
Burrow
.]
1.
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide;
as, to
bury
coals in ashes; to
bury
the face in the hands
.
And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains
buried
deep.
Milton.
2.
Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
Lord, suffer me first to go and
bury
my father.
Matt. viii. 21.
I'll
bury
thee in a triumphant grave.
Shakespeare
3.
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon;
as, to
bury
strife
.
Give me a bowl of wine
In this I
bury
all unkindness, Cassius.
Shakespeare
Burying beetle
(Zool.)
,
the general name of many species of beetles, of the tribe
Necrophaga
; the sexton beetle; – so called from their habit of burying small dead animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The larvæ feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers.
–
To bury the hatchet
,
to lay aside the instruments of war, and make peace; – a phrase used in allusion to the custom observed by the North American Indians, of burying a tomahawk when they conclude a peace.
Syn. – To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal; overwhelm; repress.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bury

BURY

,
Noun.
ber'ry. This word is a different orthography of burg, burh, borough. It signifies a house, habitation or castle, and is retained in many names of places, as in Shrewsbury, Danbury, Aldermanbury. The word is used by Grew, for burrow.

BURY

,
Verb.
T.
ber'ry.
1.
To deposit a deceased person in the grave; to inter a corpse; to entomb.
2.
To cover with earth, as seed sown.
3.
To hide; to conceal; to overwhelm; to cover with any thing; as, to bury any one in the ruins of a city.
4.
To withdraw or conceal in retirement; as, to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude.
5.
To commit to the water; to deposit in the ocean; as dead bodies buried in the deep.
6.
To place one thing within another.
Thy name so buried in her.
7.
To forget and forgive; to hide in oblivion; as, to bury an injury.
To bury the hatchet, in the striking metaphorical language of American Indians, is to lay aside the instruments of war, forget injuries, and make peace.

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