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

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

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

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.) A magistrate of a borough.

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

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

Herborough :: Herborough (n.) A harbor.

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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..

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

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..

Burg :: Burg (n.) 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.

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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..

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

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..

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