† burinessn.
Obsolete.
a. A burying, burial, sepulture.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > [noun] > a burial
buriels854
burinessc890
c890 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xi Ða wæs mycel uneþelicnes geworden be his byrignesse [L. facta difficultate tumulandi].
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 334 He deit..And syne wes brocht to berynes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 498 V of hys awne to berynis he gart leid.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12160 The grekes..broght hir to berenes, as hom best þoght.
b. A burial-place; a grave, tomb.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun]
buriels854
througheOE
burianOE
graveOE
lairc1000
lair-stowc1000
lich-restc1000
pitOE
grass-bedOE
buriness1175
earth housec1200
sepulchrec1200
tombc1300
lakec1320
buriala1325
monumenta1325
burying-place1382
resting placea1387
sepulturea1387
beda1400
earth-beda1400
longhousea1400
laystow1452
lying1480
delfa1500
worms' kitchen?a1500
bier1513
laystall1527
funeral?a1534
lay-bed1541
restall1557
cellarc1560
burying-grave1599
pit-hole1602
urn1607
cell1609
hearse1610
polyandrum1627
requietory1631
burial-place1633
mortuary1654
narrow cell1686
ground-sweat1699
sacred place1728
narrow house1792
plot1852
narrow bed1854
1175 Lamb. Hom. 35 Ga to þine feder burinesse oðer þer eni of þine cunne lið in.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12902 Sæt & bi-heold æuere ænne burinæsse [c1300 Otho burinisse].
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