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

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..

Boroughholder :: Boroughholder (n.) A headborough; a borsholder.

Burgh :: Burgh (n.) A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough..

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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

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..

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

Boroughmonger :: Boroughmonger (n.) One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

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..

Borough :: Borough (n.) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behavior of each other.

Municipality :: Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village..

Pot-walloper :: Pot-walloper (n.) A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months..

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

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

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

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