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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..

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..

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

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

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

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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..

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A borough.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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