\Bur"y\ (b[e^]r"r[y^]), n. [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}.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to
beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw.
berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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
   larv[ae] 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.