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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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

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

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

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..

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

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