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 ]

adj. 1. covered from view; as, her face buried (or hidden) in her hands; buried in the smoke of many rifles.
Syn. -- hidden. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. placed in a grave; as, the hastily buried corpses. Opposite of unburied.
Syn. -- inhumed, interred. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, buries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Till the buriers have buried it. Ezek. xxxix. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]

And darkness be the burier of the dead. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. burin, cf. It. burino, bulino; prob. from OHG. bora borer, borōn to bore, G. bohren. See 1st Bore. ] 1. The cutting tool of an engraver on metal, used in line engraving. It is made of tempered steel, one end being ground off obliquely so as to produce a sharp point, and the other end inserted in a handle; a graver; also, the similarly shaped tool used by workers in marble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The manner or style of execution of an engraver; as, a soft burin; a brilliant burin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [ Written also burrion. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of carburizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carburized p. pr. & vb. n. Carburizing. ] (Chem.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, process, or result of decarburizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of carbon; to remove the carbon from. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Named after R. A. Salisbury, an English botanist. ] (Bot.) The ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba, or Salisburia adiantifolia). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Tambourine. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A tambourine. [ Obs. ] [ 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. ]

a. Not ready or not proper to be buried. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]