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Definition of borough

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Borough (n.) 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..

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Burgher :: Burgher (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough..

Burgage :: Burgage (n.) 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..

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

Headborough :: Headborough (n.) Alt. of Headborro.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough..

Third-borough :: Third-borough (n.) An under constable.

Borough :: Borough (n.) The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax..

Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..

Bury :: Bury (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.

Boroughmaster :: Boroughmaster (n.) The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough..

Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

Boroughmongering :: Boroughmongering (n.) Alt. of Boroughmonger.

Borsholder :: Borsholder (a.) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable..

Police :: Police (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough..

Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) A species of tax upon personal property formerly laid on towns, boroughs, etc., in England, being one fifteenth part of what the personal property in each town, etc., had been valued at..

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) A magistrate of a borough.

Boroughmongery :: Boroughmongery (n.) The practices of a boroughmonger.

Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.