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

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..

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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..

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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

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

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

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..

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..

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 :: 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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