bury 
bury 1 (ber'i), n. [A form equiv. to borough 1 , 
due to tho gen. and ilat. form liyrigut the orig. 
A8. burh, a fortified place, town, boroiujli : M > 
borottghl, frurroic 1 .] A castle, manor-house, or 
habitation ; a borough. The word appears In many 
imim-s ..f plaivs, :i^ in i ':inli -rhu, n ( \S. -in. .-mil ilat. Cant- 
warn-/*// /</, num. -httrh), SI nv >/<"/ -/. \Mrri nan/- "/'/, /.'"/ / 
St. Edmunds, etc. 
To thin very day the chief house of a manor, or the loril'.s 
seat, is calU-il /"//// in .some parti* of England. Mieyr. 
bury- (ber'i), . [Another form of burrow' 2 , 
orig. barrowi. Cf. equiv. berry?.] If. A bur- 
row. 
It in liia nature to dig himself burie*, as the coney doth. 
It. Orew. 
2. A camp or heap of turnips or the like, stored 
up. 
bury 3 (ber'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. buried, ppr. 
burying. [Early mod. E. also bery (the form to 
which the mod. pron. belongs), < ME. beryen, 
berien, biryen, birien, buryen, burien, byrien, < AS. 
byrgan, var. byrigan, birgan, birigan, weak verb, 
bury, inter (a dead body) (= Icel. byrgja, close, 
shut, hide, veil), appar. orig. save or keep by 
covering or hiding, < beorgan (pret. bearh, pi. 
burgon, pp. borgen), also ge-beorgan, save, pro- 
tect, shelter, defend, keep, preserve, early ME. 
bergen = OS.gi-bergan = D. bergen = MLU. ber- 
gen, bargen, LG. bargen = OHG. bergan, MHG. 
G. bergen = Icel. bjarga = Sw. berga = Dan. 
bjerge = Goth, bairgan, ga-bairgan, keep, save: 
not known outside of Teut. Hence ult. bor- 
row^, and (prob.) borough^ = burrow 1 = buryl, 
etc.] 1. To deposit and inclose in a grave or 
tomb, as a dead body ; consign to any final rest- 
ing-place after or as after death ; entomb. 
I hadde leuer she hadde be biried all quyk than this 
hadde hlr be-fallen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), Hi. 468. 
Lord, sutler uie first to go aud bury my father. 
Mat. vlli. 21. 
Ill bury thee in a triumphant grave. 
Shak., R. and J., v. 3. 
2. To cover or conceal from sight; sink or 
lodge in or under anything: as, to bury trea- 
sures in the earth or under rubbish ; he buried 
the dagger in his enemy's heart. 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 
Shak., Rich. III., 1. 1. 
All their confidence 
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. 
MUtim, P. L., vi. 652. 
Hence S. To cover up; keep secret; hide; 
conceal. 
I have (as when the sun doth light a storm) 
Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile. 
Shak., T. and C., 1.1. 
He was glad when he could fall on his knees at last and 
Ian ii his face In the pillow of the sufferer. 
Bret Harte, Shore and Sedge, p. 49. 
4. To withdraw or conceal in retirement : as, 
to bury one's self in a monastery or in solitude. 
I will bury myself In myself, and the Devil may pipe to 
his own. Tennyson, Maud, i. 19. 
5. To hide in oblivion; put away finally from 
one's thoughts : as, to bury an injury. 
Give me a bowl of wine : 
In this I bury all unkiudness, Cassius. 
Shak., 3. C., Iv. 3. 
To bury the hatchet, to lay aside the Instruments of 
war, forget injuries, and make peace : a phrase borrowed 
from the practice of the American Indians of burying a 
tomahawk when a peace Is concluded. 
bury 4 (ber'i), n. [A corruption of F. beurre', a 
kind of pear, lit. 'buttered, pp. of beurrer, but- 
ter, < beurre = E. butter. Also barrel, q. v.] A 
delicate pear of sev- 
eral varieties. 
bury 5 (ber'i), . Soft 
shale or clay; flucau. 
[Ireland.] 
buryelt, . See burial. 
burying (ber'i -ing), 
n. [< ME. liin-i/iiii/i. 
berying, etc. ; verbal 
n. of bury 3 , v.] Bu- 
rial ; sepulture. John 
xii. 7. 
burying-beetle (ber'- 
i-ing-be*tl), n. The 
common name of bee- 
tles of the family .-v/- 
phidce and genus Ne- 
crophorux. So called 
from thrir habit of luirv- 
ing the i-un-iifws of sunill 
:tnim;iK :is mir m<ilr>. 
or shrews, in which they 
hnvi- delM.siled their Harying-beetlc i. 
eggs, amtricanrs}. natural size. 
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burying-ground (ber'i -ing -jocund). . A 
graveyard ; a place appropriated to the sepul- 
t in c of the dead ; a churchyard or cemetery. 
burying-place (ber'i-ing-plas), n. Same as bti- 
bus, buss 3 (bus), . [An abbr. of omnibus; cf. 
cab, raw 3 .] An omnibus, or public street-car- 
riage. [Colloq.] 
I'm a conductor now, but wouldn't IK- longliehind a but 
if it wasn't from necessity. Mayheir. 
He proposed that they should go, per buu, a little way 
into the country. Itickeiix. 
busby (buz'bi), w. [Appar. after a proper 
name.] A military head-dress worn by hus- 
sars, artillerymen, and engi- 
neers in the British army, con- 
sisting of a fur hat with a bag, 
of the same color as the facings 
of the regiment, hanging from 
the top over the right side. 
The bag appears to be a relic of a 
Hungarian head-dress from which a 
long padded bag hung, and was at- 
tached to the right shoulder as a de- 
fense against sword-cute. 
buscon (bus'kon), n. ; pi. bus- 
cones (bus-ko'nez). [< Sp. 
buscon, a searcher, < buscar, 
OSp. boscar, seek (= Pg. bus- 
car = It. buscare, search for, Busby. 
= F. busquer (Cotgrave), seek, 
shift, filch), prob. < OSp. bosco, bush, thicket 
(Sp. basque), and thus lit. go through a thicket, 
beat the bush, as in hunting: see bush 1 .] A 
miner who takes work as tribute, or who re- 
ceives as his pay a certainproportion of the ore 
obtained; a tributer. [Western U. S.] 
bush 1 (bush), n. [< ME. bussh, busch, bosch, as- 
sibilated form of busk, bosk (also in use), a bush, 
a thicket, = D. bosch, a wood, a forest, = MLG. 
busch, busk, LG. busk, < OHG. busc, MHG. G. 
busch, a thicket, copse, bush, = Icel. buskr, 
buski (Haldorsen) = Sw. buske = Dan. /.-/.. a 
bush, a shrub. Hence (from OHG.) ML. bus- 
cus, boscus, > OF. bos, F. bois (see bois) = Pr. 
hose = OSp. bosco, Sp. Pg. bosque = It. bosco, 
a wood, thicket, bush. See busk?, busk 3 , bus- 
con, boscage, bosket, bouquet, ambush, ambuscade, 
etc.] If. A thicket ; a clump of shrubs or trees. 
Ther as by aventure this Palamoun 
Was in a buiche, that no man inighte him see, 
For sore afered of his deth was lie. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 659. 
2. A shrub with branches ; a thick shrub ; tech- 
nically, a low and much-branched shrub. 
The Mount of Synayis clept the Desert of Syne, that is for 
to seyne, Bwaxhe brennynge. Mandeville, Travels, p. 58. 
Each common biuh shall Syrian roses wear. Dryden. 
3. A stretch of forest or of shrubby vegeta- 
tion; a district covered with brushwood, or 
shrubs, trees, etc. ; a wide uncultivated tract 
of country covered with scrub: as, the bush 
was here very dense ; to take to the bush (to 
become a fciw/i-ranger) : so used especially in 
the British colonies of Australasia. 
Our first mile lay through the most exquisite tract of 
>><'.<>< it has ever been my good fortune to behold in any 
land ; groups of tall red or black pine . . . mingled with 
fine trees of various sorts, matted by luxuriant creepers. 
The Century^ XXVII. 923. 
4. A branch of a tree fixed or hung out as a 
tavern sign. See ale-stake and ale-garland. 
Good wine needs no buth. Old proverb. 
Wicker bottles dangling over even the chlefe entrance 
into the palace, serving for a vintner's bush. 
Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 22, 1844. 
Outward figures which hang as signs or bunhe* of their 
inward forms. Sir T. Broume, Religlo Medici, ii. 2. 
Hence 6t. The tavern itself. 
Twenty to one you find him at the buth. 
Beau, and Ft. 
6. The tail or brush of a fox To beat about 
the bush. See beati. To go by beggar's bush. See 
bewiar. = Syn. Shrub, Herb, etc. See vegetable, n. 
bush 1 (bush), c. [< frits* 1 , .] I. intrans. To 
grow thick or bushy; serve or show as a bush. 
The buihing alders formed a shady scene. 
f'<>l>e, Odyssey. 
II. tratw. 1. To set bushes about; support 
with bushes or branched sticks: as, to bush 
peas. 2. To use a bush-harrow on: as, to bush 
a piece of wood. 3. To cover (seeds) by us- 
ing a bush-harrow : as, to //.-// in seeds. 
bush 2 (bush), . [< D. bits = G. busche = E. 
box 2 , a box ; all used also in the sense of /<.</( '-'.] 
1 . A lining of harder material let into an ori- 
fice to guard against wearing by friction ; the 
perforated box or tube of metal fitted into cer- 
tain parts of machinery, as the pivot-holes of 
a clock, the center of a cart-wheel, etc., to re- 
bushel 
ceive the wear of pivots, journals, and the like. 
MM. cnlli-d buxliiny. 2. A tailors' thimble. 
Al-.i .-nil.-.! buxhrl. ' [f. S.] 
bush 2 (bush), r. t. [< bush*, .] To furnish 
with a bush; line (an orifice, as one in which 
a pivot or axle works) with metal to prevent 
abrasion or to reduce the diameter. 
A gun chamber Is buthed, in order that It may receive a 
shell of umaller exterior diameter than In-fore. 
fare* and Stream, XXIII. 445. 
bush-babbler (bush'bab'ler), n. A name ap- 
plied by writers on Indian and African bird* 
to species of the genera Jiradypterux, Cratero- 
pus, and other short-winged and slender-billed 
oscine I'asteres, more or less related to the 
old-world warblers, or Sylriida;. 
bush-bean (biish'ben'), n. An American name 
for beans that do not climb, or dwarf beans ; the 
usual form of string-beans and wax-beans. 
bush-block (bush'blok), n. A block carrying 
:i luishiug. 
bushbok (bush'bok), n. Same as bushbuck. 
bushbuck (bush'buk), n. [< bushl + fruci-1, af- 
ter I), boschbok.] The name given to several 
species of the genus Tragelajthus, especially 
to T. itylvaticus, an antelope of Caffraria and 
Cape Colony, 4 feet long and 2| feet high, with 
triangular subspiral horns. The male.li dark 
sepia-brown and the female reddish-brown aliove ; both 
are white below. Also called bujth-yoat. White-backed 
bushbuck, the name given to the Cejthatuphtut nylrirul- 
trix, a white-backed antelope of western Africa, 5 feet 
long and 3 feet high, with black, shining, pointed, nearly 
straight horns, short, slender llmlx, and sleek, gloasy, 
deep-brown hair. 
bushcat (bush'kat), n. Same as serval. 
bushchat (bush'chat), n. Macgillivray's name 
for the birds of his genus Fruticicola, as the 
whin-bushchat (the whinchat, Saxicola or Pra- 
tincola rubetra, of authors in general) and the 
black-headed bushchat (the stonechat, S. or 
P. rubicola). 
bush-chirper (bush'cher'per), i. A book-name 
of African birds of the genus Eremomela, as K. 
flarirentris, the yellow-bellied bush-chirper. 
bush-creeper (bush'kre'per), H. A book-name 
of sundry African sylviine birds of the genus 
Tliamnobia, as T. coryphcea, the coryph6e bush- 
creeper. 
bush-dog (bush'dog), n. 1. A canine quadru- 
ped of South America, the Icticyon venaticux, 
or hunting-dog. See Icticyon. 2. A name of 
the lemuroid potto, Perodicticus jiotto. 
bushed (busht), . [< bughi + -<P.] Lost in 
the bush. 
If you know your way, well and good ; but If you once 
get wrong, Lord help you ! you're buttied, as sure as you're 
alive. .VafuiMau't Mail. 
bushel 1 (bush'el), . [< ME. busshel, bugchel, 
buischel, etc. (=Icel. bussel),( OF. bussel, boissel, 
F. boisseau, < ML. bussellus, a bushel, < bussuhi, 
a little box, a dim. formed from "bussida for lu- 
iiln, prop. ace. of buxis, also (L.) buxus, a box : 
see boisfl, box?, and cf. buss 2 , boss 3 .] 1. A dry 
measure, containing 8 gallons or 4 pecks. The 
imperial bushel legally established in Great Britain in 
182*1 has a capacity of 2,218. 192 cubic inches, and holds 80 
pounds avoirdupois of distilled water at the temi>erature 
of 62* F. with the barometer at SO inches. Previous to 
this the Winchester bushel had been the standard mea- 
sure from Anglo-Saxon times : its capacity was 2,150.42 
cubic inches. The measures of capacity of the 1'nited 
states are founded on the Winchester bushel, the Im- 
perial system having lieen created since the separation of 
the two countries. The inline Winchester bufhel Is de- 
rived from the fact that the ancient standard bushel-mea- 
sure of England was preserved in the town-hall of Win- 
chester. N mm- rou bushels were in nse in England at the 
time of the adoption of the ImjieriHl system. Thus, by a 
statute of Anne, a bushel of coals is to contain a Winches- 
ter bushel and a quart of water, to 1>e 194 inches in diani* 
eter. and to be heaped in the form of a cone 6 inches high. 
Various equivalent weights of different commodities had 
also been made bushels by law. Many of the American 
States have established equivalent weights, which vary 
considerably in different States. Abbreviated to Int., tnuh. 
Of a Ltinden biuchelle he shalle bake 
xx louys [loaves], I vndurtake. 
Babeet Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 320. 
2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel. 
The Grand Signior . . . commonly weareth a vest of 
green, and the greatest Turbant in the Empire : I should 
not speake much out of compasse, should I say as large 
in compasse as a buiheU. Sandyt, Travels, p. 4H. 
3. An indefinitely large quantity. [Colloq.] 
The worthies of antiquity bought the rarest pictures 
with butheli of gold, without counting the weight or the 
number of the piece*. 
Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting. 
bushel 2 (bush'el), n. [Dim. of bw>)&, q. v.] 
Same as bush*, 2. [TJ. S.] 
bushel 2 (bush'el), v. t. or . [< bushel*, n.] To 
mend, as a man's garment ; repair men's gar- 
meuts. 
