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Webster 1913 Edition
Bury
1.
A borough; a manor;
; – as, the
Bury
of St. Edmond’sused as a termination of names of places;
as, Canter
. bury
, Shrewsbury
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 handsAnd all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains
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
strifeGive me a bowl of wine
In this I
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.
BURY
,Verb.
T.
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.
Definition 2024
Bury
bury
bury
English
Verb
bury (third-person singular simple present buries, present participle burying, simple past and past participle buried)
- (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
- (transitive) To place in the ground.
- bury a bone; bury the embers
- (transitive, often figuratively) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. […] Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
- she buried her face in the pillow; they buried us in paperwork
-
- (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
- secrets kept buried; she buried her shame and put on a smiling face.
- (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
- They buried their argument and shook hands.
- Shakespeare
- Give me a bowl of wine. / In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
- (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
- 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:
- You could feel the relief after Bendtner collected Wilshere's raking pass before cutting inside Carlos Edwards and burying his shot beyond Fulop.
-
- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
inter a corpse in a grave or tomb
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place in the ground
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hide or conceal as if by covering with earth
to put an end to; to abandon
Noun
bury (plural buries)
- (obsolete) A burrow.[2]
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapterII:
- Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
- 1879, Richard Jefferies, The Amateur Poacher, chapterII:
References
- ↑ Upward, Christopher & George Davidson. 2011. The History of English Spelling. Wiley-Blackwell.
- ↑ J. A. Simpson and E. S. C. Weiner (prepared by), The Compact Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (Claredon Press, Oxford 1991 [1989], ISBN 0-19-861258-3), page 190/687
Etymology 2
See borough.
Noun
bury (plural buries)
- A borough; a manor
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"
- Indisputable, though very dim to modern vision, rests on its hill-slope that same Bury, Stow, or Town of St. Edmund; already a considerable place, not without traffic
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 5, "Twelfth Century"