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

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..

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..

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

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

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

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..

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

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

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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

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

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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..

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

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