n. [ OE. buriel, buriels, grave, tomb, AS. byrgels, fr. byrgan to bury, and akin to OS. burgisli sepulcher. ] 1. A grave; a tomb; a place of sepulture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The erthe schook, and stoones weren cloven, and biriels weren opened. Wycliff [ Matt. xxvii. 51, 52 ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of burying; depositing a dead body in the earth, in a tomb or vault, or in the water, usually with attendant ceremonies; sepulture; interment. “To give a public burial.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air-tight, for the preservation of a dead body. --
Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of burials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. --
Burial place, any place where burials are made. --
Burial service. (a) The religious service performed at the interment of the dead; a funeral service. (b) That portion of a liturgy which is read at an interment; as, the English burial service. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sepulture; interment; inhumation. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Disposal of the dead by placing the corpse among the branches of a tree or in a hollow trunk, a practice among many primitive peoples. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]