noun.
A borough; a manor
noun.
A manor house; a castle.
transitive verb.
To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide.
transitive verb.
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.
transitive verb.
To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon.
transitive verb.
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 larvæ feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful scavengers.
transitive verb.
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.