To this very day, the chief house of a manor, or the lord's seat, is called bury, in some parts of England.
Miege.

And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep.
Milton.

Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Matt. viii. 21.

I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave.
Shak.

Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.
Shak.

Burying beetle (Zoöl.), 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. -- 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.