Obs. Used by Chaucer with uncertain meaning. Skinner in 17th c. suggested ‘sent to the realms of darkness’; others would connect it with BLACKBERRY.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pard. Prol., 78. I rekke neuere whan they been beryed, Though that hir soules goon a blakeberyed [so 5 MSS., Lansd. a blakberied, Petw. o blakburied].
