Bury
Bury (ber"ry) , noun
[See 1st Borough.]
used as a termination of names of places; as, Canterbury, Shrewsbury.
1.
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
2.
A manor house; a castle. [Provincial English]
To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England.
Bury ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English burien, birien, berien, Anglo-Saxon byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect, Old High German bergan, German bergen, Icelandic bjarga, Swedish berga, Danish bierge, Goth. baírgan. r95. Compare 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.
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.
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
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.
Collocations (2)
Burying beetle (Zoology) , 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 larva 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.