Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Necrophagous \Ne*croph"a*gous\, a. [Gr. ? eating corpses; ? a
   dead body + ? to eat: cf. F. n['e]crophage.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Of or pertaining to the {Necrophaga}; eating carrion. See
   {Necrophagan}.

Necrophagan \Ne*croph"a*gan\, a. [See {Necrophagous}.]
   (Zo["o]l.)
   Eating carrion. -- n. (Zo["o]l.) Any species of a tribe
   ({Necrophaga}) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on
   carrion; a burying beetle.

Bury \Bur"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Buried}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Burying}.] [OE. burien, birien, berien, AS. byrgan; akin to
   beorgan to protect, OHG. bergan, G. bergen, Icel. bjarga, Sw.
   berga, Dan. bierge, Goth. ba['i]rgan. [root]95. Cf.
   {Burrow}.]
   1. To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over,
      or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal
      by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury
      the face in the hands.

            And all their confidence Under the weight of
            mountains buried deep.                --Milton.

   2. Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a
      deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to
      deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral
      ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.

            Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
                                                  --Matt. viii.
                                                  21.

            I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.

   3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
      to bury strife.

            Give me a bowl of wine In this I bury all
            unkindness, Cassius.                  --Shak.

   {Burying beetle} (Zo["o]l.), the general name of many species
      of beetles, of the tribe {Necrophaga}; the sexton beetle;
      -- so called from their habit of burying small dead
      animals by digging away the earth beneath them. The
      larv[ae] feed upon decaying flesh, and are useful
      scavengers.

   {To bury the hatchet}, to lay aside the instruments of war,
      and make peace; -- a phrase used in allusion to the custom
      observed by the North American Indians, of burying a
      tomahawk when they conclude a peace.

   Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
        overwhelm; repress.