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▪ I. burying, vbl. n.|ˈbɛrɪɪŋ|
(Forms: see the verb.)
[f. bury v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of entombing a dead body or anything similarly treated; burial, interment.
1297R. Glouc. 382 Henry, hys ȝonge sone, was at hys buryng. c1300K. Alis. 8013 N'uste mon never hethen kyng Have so riche a buryeng. 1388Wyclif Jer. xxii. 19 He schal be biried with the biriyng of an asse. c1420Sir Amadace xxiv, I schalle..Bringe his bodi to Cristun beriinge. 1608Shakes. Per. iii. ii. 72 Who finds her, give her burying. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Burying alive, was the punishment of a Vestal who had violated her vow of virginity. 1772Johnson in Phil. Trans. LXIII. 144 An axe..imports war: the taking it up, being a declaration of war; and the burying it, a token of peace. Mod. The day after the battle was devoted to the burying of the dead.
†b. concr. A funeral, a burial. Obs. or dial.
1681E. Murphy State Irel. §31 He..tarried a while in the..place ere the Burying came. 1750Wesley Wks. (1872) II. 192 There being a great burying in the afternoon. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode upon O. Wks. 1812 I. 433 Palls that grace a burying.
2. The action of depositing under ground, covering over with earth or other material; also fig.
1626Bacon Sylva §315 The Burying of Bottles of Drink well stopped. Mod. The burying of his talent by the unprofitable servant.
3. Comb. and attrib., as burying-bell, burying-day, burying-grave, burying-party; also † burying-light, ? the tapers used at a funeral service; † burying-ticket, ? a funeral card.
1552in Church Goods of Berks. 8 A *burienge bell, a sakeringe bell.
1602Return fr. Parnass. iii. v. (Arb.) 47 From our first birth, vntil our *burying day.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. iii. 10 What is her *burying graue that is her wombe.
1887H. R. Haggard xxxi. Jess in Cornhill Mag. Mar. 321 You are likely to meet a *burying party. a1918W. Owen Poems (1920) 19 The burying-party, picks and shovels in their shaking grasp.
1522Bk. Founder's Comp. in N. & Q. iii. IX. 62 Payd to the Wax Chaundler for the *beryin lycht at Sen Markytts.
1712Steele Spect. No. 431. ⁋3, I then nibbled all the red Wax of our last Ball-Tickets, and three Weeks after the black Wax from the *Burying-Tickets of the old Gentleman.
▪ II. ˈburying, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Interring; enclosing, whelming.
1762–9Falconer Shipwr. iii. 590 The burying waters close around their head. 1855Tennyson Maud ii. v. 12 Never an end to the stream of passing feet, Driving, hurrying, marrying, burying.
Hence burying-beetle, -sylph, a clavicorn beetle, which excavates the ground beneath the dead bodies of mice, moles, and other small quadrupeds, so as to bury them as a nidus for its larvæ.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 126 The burying sylph..Synonyms. Silpha vespillo. Linn.—Scarabæus silphoides? 1818Kirby & Spence Entomol. I. ix. 258 The burying-beetle (Necrophorus Vespillo, F.) inters the bodies of small animals. 1883Wood in Gd. Words Dec. 762/1 Burying Beetles, with their orange and black-banded bodies. |