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276 words match “BURY”

BURY n. 5 definitions

A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's; --

BURYING GROUND; BURYING PLACE n.

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

ANBURY; AMBURY n. 2 definitions

A soft tumor or bloody wart on horses or oxen.

CANTERBURY n. 2 definitions

y in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas à Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made.

GLASTONBURY THORN n.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

To bury again. Ashmole.

A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover. [Written also tilburgh.]

To disinter; to exhume; fig., to disclose.

WOODBURY-TYPE n. 2 definitions

A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.…

Same as Anbury.

urt of arches, or Arches Court (Eng. Law), the court of appeal of the Archbishop of Canterbury, whereof the judge, who sits as deputy to the archbishop, is called the Dean of the Arches, because he anciently held his court in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow (de arcubus). It is now held in Westminster. Mozley & W.…

ARCHIEPISCOPAL a.

Of or pertaining to an archbishop; as, Canterbury is an archiepiscopal see.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

r Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. -- In general (or open) audience, publicly. -- To give audience, to listen; to admit to an interview.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

s which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

rney. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. My lord's coach conveyed me to Bury, and thence baiting aEvelyn.

ing mentally; comparison; estimate. A fair balance of the advantages on either side. Atterbury.

To bury; also, to engrave. [Obs.] Gower.