BURIAL, BURIED, BURY
ADJECTIVES
► BASKETED dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BENEATH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BOXED UP dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► BUSTAL relating to burial or to the grave; funereal → 1727 obs.
► CONTUMULATE buried together; laid in the same tomb → 1471 obs.
► DOWEN buried → 1450 obs.
► DOWN SOUTH buried; hidden; in one’s pocket → 1910 Aust. sl.
► FUNERAL relating to the ceremonial burial or cremation of the dead; observed, delivered, etc., at a funeral → 1405 obs.
► GONE TO GRASS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► GONE TO POT dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► HUMATE buried, interred → 1511 obs.
► IN COLD STORAGE ► IN STORAGE dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► IN THE DUSTBIN dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► LOW dead and buried; lying in the ground → 1808 poetic usage, obs.
► PACKED UP dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PLANTED dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► POTTED dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT UNDER dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SALTED AWAY ► SALTED DOWN dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► SLEEPING buried → 1996 Amer. dial. euphemism (Bk.)
► UNDER dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► UNDER BOARD dead and buried → 1898 N. Ireland (Bk.)
► UNDER GRASS ► UNDER GRASSES buried; in the grave → 1350
► UNDER HATCHES dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► YERD ► YIRD buried → 1821 Sc.
NOUNS
► BACK-BREED a burial allotment → 1890 Sc.
► BURINESS a burying, burial, sepulture → 890 obs.
► BURYING a burial; a funeral, an interment → 1297
► COFFIN MONEY burial insurance → 1950 Amer. dial.
► CONTUMULATION a burying together → 1846
► DEAD YARD a ceremony after burial in the deceased’s yard → 2003 Jamaica
► DEEP SIX, THE burial at sea → 2006 US sl. (Bk.)
► EARTHING 1. burial → 1300 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
2. the state of being buried → 1300 obs.
► GROUND SWEAT burial in a grave; a grave → 17C sl.
► HAPPING-UP a burial → 1864 Eng. dial.
► HUMATION burial, interment → 1635 obs.
► LYING the state of being buried → 1480 obs.
► PHINNEY a burial → 1718
► PLANTING a burial → M19 Welsh sl.
► POLLINCTURE a washing, anointing, or otherwise preparing a dead body for cremation or burial → 1656 obs.
► TAPHEPHOBIA ► TAPHIPHOBIA ►TAPHOPHOBIA an abnormal fear of being buried alive → 1991 (Bk.)
► YIRDING burial, interment → 1895 Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BURIALER a person who assists at a burial → 1832
► MEAT MAN the person who prepares a dead body for burial → 1965 Amer. dial.
PHRASES
► AGED IN WOOD dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUNTING DAISY ROOTS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► COUNTING WORMS dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► DEAD AND GONE dead and buried → 1871 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEAD AND GONE BACK dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AND HAPPED UP dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD AND LOW LAID dead and buried → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DOG TAG ON FILE dead and buried → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► GREEN IN EARTH just buried → 1592 obs.
► PUSHING UP DAISIES dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT TO BED WITH A PICK AND SHOVEL buried → 1945 US Western usage (Bk.)
► PUT TO BED WITH A SHOVEL dead and buried 1942 → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► PUT TO ONE’S FATHERS to be dead and buried → 1440 obs.
► SEWED IN A BLANKET dead and buried → 1915 World War I Amer. sl.
► TAKING A GROUND SWEAT dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► TAKING AN EARTH BATH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► WITH A GARDEN ON THE STOMACH dead and buried → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BEBURY to bury; to entomb → 1000 obs.
► BEDELVE ► BIDELVE to bury → 1000 obs.
► BE GATHERED TO ONE’S FATHERS ► SLEEP WITH ONE’S FATHERS to be dead and buried → 1382
► BEGRAVE to bury a corpse, treasure, etc. → 1000 obs.
► BE PUT TO BED WITH A SHOVEL to be buried → 1858 N. Ireland
► BESTOW to bury; to put away carefully, to dispose of → 1787 Eng. dial.
► BE UNDER THE DAISY-MORES to be buried; to be under the ground → 1893 Eng. dial.
► BRING ONE TO THE EARTH to bury → 1387 obs.
► CONTUMULATE to bury or entomb together → 1623 obs.
► DEEP SIX to bury someone or something → M20 US
► EARTH to bury; to commit a corpse to the earth → 1375 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FUNERATE to bury with funeral rites → 1548 obs.
► LAIR to bury → 1773 Sc.
► LAY A CORPSE to be laid out for burial → 1927 Amer. dial.
► LAY AWAY to bury → 1885 Amer. dial.
► LAY CORPSE to be laid out for burial → 1981 Amer. dial.
► LAY FULL LOW to bury; to lay in the ground → 1597 arch.
► LAY LOW to bury; to lay in the ground → 1425 arch.
► LAY TO BED to bury; to put in the last resting-place → 1340 obs.
► LAY TO SLEEP to bury; to put in the last resting-place → 1300
► LAY UP to bury → 1581 obs.
► LIE UNDERSOD to be buried → 1900 Eng. dial.
► OBRUTE to bury; to cover over → 1541 obs.
► PLANT to bury → 1855 sl., orig. US
► PUT AWAY to bury; to dispose of the remains of a dead person → 1500 colloq.
► PUT THE DAISY-QUILT OVER SOME ONE to bury, to put into a grave → 1848 Ireland
► SMEAR to prepare a dead body with unguents before burial → 950 obs.
► TAKE A DIRT NAP to be buried → 1990 African-American sl.
► TAKE A GROUND SWEAT to be buried → 17C sl.
► TEAL ► TEEL to bury in the earth; to bury → 1854 Eng. dial.
► TYRE to inter, to bury → 1500 Sc. obs.