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  • English Word Burgamot Definition See Bergamot.
  • English Word Burganet Definition See Burgonet.
  • English Word Burgee Definition A kind of small coat.
  • English Word Burgee Definition A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels.
  • English Word Burgeois Definition See 1st Bourgeois.
  • English Word Burgeois Definition A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois.
  • English Word Burgeon Definition To bud. See Bourgeon.
  • English Word Burgess Definition An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
  • English Word Burgess Definition One who represents a borough in Parliament.
  • English Word Burgess Definition A magistrate of a borough.
  • English Word Burgess Definition An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
  • English Word Burgess-ship Definition The state of privilege of a burgess.
  • English Word Burggrave Definition Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.
  • English Word Burgh Definition A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
  • English Word Burghal Definition Belonging to a burgh.
  • English Word Burghbote Definition A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
  • English Word Burghbrech Definition The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
  • English Word Burgher Definition A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
  • English Word Burgher Definition A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
  • English Word Burghermaster Definition See Burgomaster.
  • English Word Burghership Definition The state or privileges of a burgher.
  • English Word Burghmaster Definition A burgomaster.
  • English Word Burghmaster Definition An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.
  • English Word Burghmote Definition A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
  • English Word Burglar Definition One guilty of the crime of burglary.
  • English Word Burglarer Definition A burglar.
  • English Word Burglaries Definition of Burglary
  • English Word Burglarious Definition Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary.
  • English Word Burglariously Definition With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.
  • English Word Burglary Definition Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.