English English Dictionary

A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborate.

A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.

A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic weight 10.9. Symbol B.

A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.

In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax.

An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

The pledge or surety thus given.

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother.

See Headborough.

A headborough; a borsholder.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

Alt. of Boroughmongery

The practices of a boroughmonger.

See Borachio.

Alt. of Borraginaceous

See Borage, n., etc.

Ignorant, unlearned; belonging to the laity.

A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.