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- verb Obsolete spelling of
bury .
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Examples
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All the Aphres burye their deade as the Grecians doe, sauing the Nasamones, which bury them as thoughe they ware sitting: wayting well when any man lieth in drawing on, to set him on his taile, leaste he should giue vp the ghoste lieng vpright.
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They loue their yonges very well, and they fede them lo {n} ge with the mylke of their pappes/& they haue many yonges, & amonge the {m} all be .ij. olde ones, that yf it fortuned one of {th} e yonges to dye, tha {n} these olde ones wyll burye them depe in the gorwnd [_sic_] of the see/because othere fisshes sholde nat ete thys dede delphyn; so well they loue theyr yonges.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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All the Aphres burye their deade as the Grecians doe, sauing the Nasamones, which bury them as thoughe they ware sitting: wayting well when any man lieth in drawing on, to set him on his taile, leaste he should giue vp the ghoste lieng vpright.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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