† buryn.
Obsolete.
A manor-house, or large farm; a specialization of the Old English burh, byrig ‘an enclosed or fortified place’ which still survives in many local names.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > manor
buryc1175
manorc1300
c1175 Cott. Hom. 231 And þider geclepien alle his under~þeod þat hi bi éne féce to his curt (berie) come sceolde.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2257 He ledde hem alle to Iosepes biri.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 418 Bury, or Biry..was vsed for a court, or place of assembly.]
1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 232 The name of Aldermans bury (which is to say a court) there kept in their Bery, or Court hall.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 106 They went untill they came to a Bury.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Berry..The chief house of a Manor, or the Lords seat is so called..to this day; especially in Herefordshire, where there are the Berries of Luston, Stockton, etc.
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buryv.
/ˈbɛri/, U.S. /ˈbɛri/ 1.
a. To deposit (a corpse) in the ground, in a tomb; to inter. Hence to commit (a corpse) to the sea, with appropriate funeral rites.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > bury or entomb [verb (transitive)]
bedelveOE
begraveOE
burya1000
beburyc1000
bifel-ec1000
layc1000
to fall, lull, lay (bring obs.) asleepOE
tombc1275
gravec1300
inter1303
rekec1330
to lap in leadc1340
to lay to rest, abed, to bed1340
lie1387
to louk in clay (lead, etc.)?a1400
to lay lowa1425
earthc1450
sepulture1490
to put awaya1500
tyrea1500
mould1530
to graith in the grave1535
ingrave1535
intumulate1535
sepult1544
intumil?c1550
yird1562
shrinea1566
infera1575
entomb1576
sepelite1577
shroud1577
funeral1578
to load with earth1578
delve1587
to lay up1591
sepulchrize1595
pit-hole1607
infuneral1610
mool1610
inhumate1612
inurna1616
inhume1616
pit1621
tumulate1623
sepulchrea1626
turf1628
underlay1639
urna1657
to lay to sleep, asleep1701
envaulta1745
plant1785
ensepulchre1820
sheugh1839
to put under1879
to lay away1885
a1000 Hymns (Gr.) x. 29 Þone geomormod Josep byrigde.
1154 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1137 . §7 & sythen byrieden him.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2520 Hise oðre breðere..Woren ybiried at ebron.
c1440 York Myst. xvii. 285 Sen thy body beryed shalbe, This mirre will I giffe to þi grauyng.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 489 He deit soyn, and beryit was.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13674 Ascatus..Gert bryng hom to burgh, birit hom faire.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. viii. f. 23 Thame, that will nocht berisch or erde the bodis of thair freindis on the North part of the kirk ȝard.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iii. iii. 154 Ile be buried in the Kings hie way. View more context for this quotation
1635 Tom a Lincolne ii, in W. J. Thoms Early Eng. Prose Romances (1858) II. 344 Buring him inhumanly upon a dunghill.
1852 Ld. Tennyson Ode Wellington 1 Let us bury the Great Duke.
b. Said of the surviving relatives: hence, to have buried (one's relatives) = to have lost them by death.
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the world > life > death > [verb (transitive)] > have lost relatives by death
bury1710
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 215. ⁋4 My elder Sister buried her Husband about Six Months ago.
1723 S. Morland Specimen Lat. Dict. 11 To Bury, as one buries his Relations when he survives them, Efferre.
c. Said of the religious functionary who celebrates the rites which accompany interment.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > religious rites > perform religious rites [verb (transitive)] > perform service over
bury1401
1401 in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1859) II. 87 Whi..wil we not..birien the pore as wel as the riche?
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 51 So no þing be askid..for dead to be byried.
1888 N.E.D. at Bury Mod. ‘I never object to bury a dissenter; indeed I should be most happy to bury them all.’
d. absol.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > be buried [verb (intransitive)] > bury
bury1552
1552–3 Inventory Church Goods in Ann. Diocese Lichfield (1863) IV. 46 Xls. peyd to the bysshope for his laysance to byrrey.
1854 N. Wiseman Fabiola ii. xi. 145 There is no evidence of the Christians having buried anywhere, anteriorly to the construction of catacombs.
e. figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)]
heeleOE
dernc893
mitheeOE
wryOE
buryc1175
hidec1200
dilla1300
laina1375
keepa1382
wrapa1382
cover1382
conceala1393
curea1400
shroud1412
veilc1460
smorec1480
cele1484
suppress1533
wrap1560
smoulder1571
squat1577
muffle1582
estrange1611
screen1621
lock1646
umbrage1675
reserve1719
restrict1802
hugger-mugger1803
mask1841
ward1881
thimblerig1899
marzipan1974
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Hwenne þu scrift underuongest þenne buriest þu þine sunnen.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. vi. 4 We ben to gidere biried with him bi cristendom in to deeth.
a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Sviijv Ȝe Prencis, and Prelatis..Sall bureit be in hell.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 354 Qu. Thou didst kill my children. King. But in your daughters wombe, I buried them. View more context for this quotation
1852 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (ed. 2) I. iii. 138 His first aim must have been to bury the evidence in the graves of his associates.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 110 He would bury you under a mountain of words.
2.
a. To put under ground for the same purposes as a corpse, e.g. to bury a person alive; to consign to the ground any carcass, decaying organized matter, rubbish, etc.; also, other things, in sign of their final abandonment or abrogation. to bury the hatchet: see hatchet n. Phrases 2a(a); cf. also war-hatchet n. at war n.1 Compounds 4.
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society > armed hostility > peace > be at peace [verb (intransitive)] > cease hostilities
to sheathe the swordc1430
to bury the hatchet1535
truce1569
society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)]
to make grithc1000
grith11..
to make peace?a1160
peasec1300
to inform the peace?a1400
to bury the hatchet1535
seal1596
pacificate1646
to beat swords into ploughshares1924
Locarnize1925
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury
delvec1175
indelve1382
mine?1440
dig1530
bury1535
inter1601
inhume1626
turf1628
earthen1708
inearth1801
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxii. 19 As an Asse shall he be buried.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 55 I'le breake my staffe, Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth. View more context for this quotation
b. figurative. To consign to oblivion, put out of the way, abandon and forget.
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the mind > mental capacity > memory > faulty recollection > deliberate forgetting, condoning > [verb (transitive)] > consign to oblivion
defacec1386
to strike by1457
efface1490
unlearna1500
obliterate1548
delete1563
oblivionize1593
dismiss1594
bury1595
oblivion1659
obliviate1661
erase1695
to go into the discard1927
cancel1990
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 iv. i. 54 In Your madnes, you burie brotherhood.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 211 Giue me a bowl of wine, In this I bury all vnkindnesse Cassius. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Law in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1885) III. App. i. 234 To burie presbiterian government with their oun consent.
1712 Addr. Cambridge in London Gaz. No. 5027/5 May Faction be buried.
1885 A. B. Ellis W. Afr. Islands xi. 263 The natives..had buried their own differences and united to repel the invaders.
c. To consign to a position of obscurity, inaccessibility, or inaction; often reflexive and in passive.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (transitive)]
reclusea1400
sequesterc1430
withdrawa1450
sequestrate1513
solitary1581
reclude1598
seclude1629
bury1711
recess1795
backwater1885
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > seclude [verb (reflexive)]
sequesterc1430
seclude1749
bury1782
reclude1911
1711 W. King et al. Vindic. Sacheverell 74 It would be a pity to bury so promising a young Gentleman in such a Place.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 219 I look'd upon my self as one Buried alive, in a remote Part of the World.
1751 E. Carter Rambler No. 100. ⁋1 Many well disposed persons..are so unfortunate as to be totally buried in the country.
1782 W. Cowper Truth in Poems 443 Sorrow might..Bury herself in solitude profound.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 34 To retire from the world, and bury herself in the recesses of the cloister.
3.
a. Without restriction of purpose: To deposit or hide under ground; to cover up with earth or other material.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > with or as with earth
rekec1330
burya1400
whelm1555
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16919 Þe iewes..buried hem [sc. crosses] fro cristen men in a priuey sted.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 451/1 It is the propertye of a dogge to burye his meate in the grounde.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xviii. sig. J.iii Bake meate..is buryd in paast.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §378 A Bottle of Beer, buried in like manner as before, became more lively.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 112 The frozen Earth lies buried there, below A hilly Heap, sev'n Cubits deep in Snow. View more context for this quotation
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Burial Chemists sometimes bury their cements.
1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights 53 So I took the money..and buried 3000 pieces of gold.
b. Of things: To cover over out of sight, to submerge.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover and conceal
overwryeOE
hidec1374
forcover1382
veilc1384
overclosec1400
shroud1426
wimple1532
smotherc1592
encurtain1596
over-curtain1621
coverclea1631
bury1737
stifle1820
visor1872
becurtain1878
1737 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (1759) at Cedrus This wood..resisting gun shots, and burying the shot without splintering.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §272 The seas that are said..in a manner to bury the house in time of storms.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §273 The two stones together would compleatly..bury the cramps.
4.
a. To plunge or sink deep in, so as to cover from view; to put out of sight; also in phrases, to bury one's face in one's hands, to bury one's hands in one's pockets, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > block view
bury1601
screen1611
obstruct1667
shut1697
to shut out1856
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 45 The riuer that is buried vnder the earth, twentie miles off appeareth againe.
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. ⁋1 As well assault an army that is buried in intrenchments.
1815 Ld. Byron Song of Saul i, in Hebrew Melodies 24 Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath!
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiii. 191 Taking a pin..he buried it to the head in her flesh.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. x. 238 Hypatia sat still in her chamber, her face buried in her hands.
b. intransitive for reflexive or passive. To burrow; also Mechanics to lie embedded or enclosed. Of a vessel: to plunge the bows under water. Also transitive.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > dig or burrow
diga1425
thirl1577
delve1727
burrow1771
bury1841
mole1856
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > into heavy sea
to ride forecastle in1719
bury1841
pile-drive1898
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > of parts: operate [verb (intransitive)] > lie embedded or enclosed
bury1841
1841 Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 9. 266 The animal buries in sand.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 Those ends of the planks which bury in the rabbets.
1866 ‘Argonaut’ Arts Rowing & Training i. iv. 28 The oar will be feathered under water, and thus the boat will be buried.
1886 Outing Nov. 117/1 It was asserted that she [sc. the keel schooner] was too fine forward,..that she would bury in driving hard.
1888 W. B. Woodgate Boating (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 128 The aspirant to sculling honours had better..take his first lesson in a gig... A dingey buries too much on the stroke, and spoils style.
c. figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > escape observation [verb (intransitive)]
lurkc1374
buryc1449
hoard1567
to go underground1935
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 39 The inward book of lawe of kinde, biried in mannis soule and herte.
1712 G. Berkeley Passive Obed. §9. 12 Every Man's particular Rule is buried in his own Breast.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Hist. (1855) ii. 61 The truth, that now is buried beneath the mass of the old British legends.
5. passive. To be profoundly absorbed or engrossed in a habit or practice.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > be absorbed in [verb (intransitive)]
buryc1380
porec1387
sinka1400
withgoa1400
founce1430
resta1500
intend?1504
to busy one's brains?1532
lose1604
immerse1667
to give into ——1692
to make a study of1884
the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > have to do with or be involved in or with > deeply
buryc1380
immerse1790
c1380 J. Wyclif Three Treat. xviii, in Wks. (1880) 271 Prelatis & peynted religious beried in here olde synne.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 9 His mind Half buried in some weightier argument.
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