A piece of ground set apart as devoted to the regular interment of the dead; a burying-ground, cemetery.
1803. Ann. Rev., I. 98. The account of the burial-grounds furnishes the most interesting description in this work.
1842. Longf., God’s Acre, i. I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial ground God’s acre!
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., viii. It was the burial-ground of all the goats in the island.
1850. Lyell, 2nd Visit U.S., II. 325. That burial-ground commands a beautiful view.
