Definition of burg

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Burg (n.) A fortified town.

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Burgee :: Burgee (n.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels..
Burglarer :: Burglarer (n.) A burglar.
Burgess :: Burgess (n.) One who represents a borough in Parliament.
Galipot :: Galipot (n.) An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purified, it is called yellow pitch, white pitch, or Burgundy pitch..
Burghmote :: Burghmote (n.) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
Burggrave :: Burggrave (n.) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached..
Burghership :: Burghership (n.) The state or privileges of a burgher.
Auld :: Auld (a.) Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh..
Burgonet :: Burgonet (n.) A kind of helmet.
Burgess :: Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
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..
Burghal :: Burghal (a.) Belonging to a burgh.
Burgall :: Burgall (n.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner.
Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..
Burglar :: Burglar (n.) One guilty of the crime of burglary.
Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..
Portman :: Portman (n.) An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports..
Burgeois :: Burgeois (n.) See 1st Bourgeois.
Harmonite :: Harmonite (n.) One of a religious sect, founded in Wurtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony..
Burgeon :: Burgeon (v. i.) To bud. See Bourgeon.
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