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Borough :: 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..

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..

Borough :: Borough (n.) The pledge or surety thus given.

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

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

Burghmote :: Burghmote (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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

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

Freeman :: Freeman (n.) A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman..

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..

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

Recorder :: Recorder (n.) The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court..

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

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

Commons :: Commons (n. pl.) The House of Commons, or lower house of the British Parliament, consisting of representatives elected by the qualified voters of counties, boroughs, and universities..

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.

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..

Borough-english :: Borough-English (n.) 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..

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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