BURY, n. 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, v.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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