buryn.[See 1st Borough.]1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's()2. A manor house; a castle.()To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England. (Miege.)v. t.[OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. bargan. 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. (Shak.)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. (Shak.)Burying beetle (Zol.), 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 larv 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.()() The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.()