Word Meanings - BURGHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging of a burgh.

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• BURGHBRECH
  The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill. (more info) Law)
• BURGHMOTE
  A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
• BURGHAL
  Belonging of a burgh.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BURGHBOTE
  A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
• BURGHERMASTER
  See BURGOMASTER
• BURGHMASTER
  An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. (more info) 1. A burgomaster.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• BURGHERSHIP
  The state or privileges of a burgher.
• BURGHER
  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. Note: These parties arose
• BURGH
  A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
• ANTIBURGHER
  One who seceded from the Burghers , deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.
• LUSSHEBURGH
  A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer.
• SPITZENBURGH
  A kind of red and yellow apple, of medium size and spicy flavor. It originated at Newtown, on Long Island.
• ROXBURGH
  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.
• SUBELONGATE
  Not fully elongated; somewhat elongated.