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To bury the hatchet
(gcide) | Hatchet \Hatch"et\ (-[e^]t), n. [F. hachette, dim. of hache ax.
See 1st Hatch, Hash.]
1. A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.
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2. Specifically, a tomahawk.
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Buried was the bloody hatchet. --Longfellow.
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hatchet face, a thin, sharp face, like the edge of a
hatchet; hence:
hatchet-faced, sharp-visaged. --Dryden.
To bury the hatchet, to make peace or become reconciled.
To take up the hatchet, to make or declare war. The last
two phrases are derived from the practice of the American
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To bury the hatchet
(gcide) | 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.
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And all their confidence
Under the weight of mountains buried deep. --Milton.
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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.
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Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
--Matt. viii.
21.
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I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave. --Shak.
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3. To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as,
to bury strife.
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Give me a bowl of wine
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. --Shak.
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Burying beetle (Zool.), 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.
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Syn: To intomb; inter; inhume; inurn; hide; cover; conceal;
overwhelm; repress.
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