Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BUR-Y, v.t. [ber'ry; Sax. byrian, burgan, to bury; byrgen, a tomb or sepulcher; allied to beorgan, to save.]

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 anything; 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. – Shak.
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.