bury : Idioms & Phrases

• (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.

Webster 1913

• noun a tract of land used for burials
  graveyard; burial ground; memorial park; cemetery; burial site; necropolis.
  

WordNet

Bur"y*ing ground`, Bur"y*ing place (Also<

• Burying ground
• Burying place

)

Definitions

1. The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

Webster 1913

• to make peace or become reconciled.
• 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.

Webster 1913