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

Boroughhead :: Boroughhead (n.) See Headborough.

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

Mayor :: Mayor (n.) The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

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..

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

Burg :: Burg (n.) A 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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Harborough :: Harborough () Alt. of Harbroug.

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

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

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