BURIES
Verb
buries
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bury
Anagrams
• Uribes, bruise, busier, rubies
Source: Wiktionary
BURY
Bur"y, n. Etym: [See 1st Borough.]
1. A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; --
Note: used as a termination of names of places; as, Canterbury,
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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buried; p. pr. & vb. n. Burying.] Etym:
[OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to beorgan to protect,
OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw. berga, Dan. bierge, Goth.
baírgan. sq. root95. 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition