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A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft.
A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.
See Bergamot.
See Burgonet.
A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
A kind of small coat.
A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
See 1st Bourgeois.
To bud. See Bourgeon.
A magistrate of a borough.
One who represents a borough in Parliament.
An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
The state of privilege of a burgess.
Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.
A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
Belonging to a burgh.
A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.