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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, 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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Entry for 'Bury'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/bury.html.
 
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