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noun

Burgess n.

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Note: "A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city."

One who represents a borough in Parliament.

A magistrate of a borough.

An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. Note: Before the Revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia were called burgesses; they are now called delegates.

Burgess oath. See Burgher, 2.

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"Burgess" Quotes from Famous Books

... Burgess been after you to get your impression of Endbury as compared with Europe? Your mother said she wanted an interview with you for ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

... Road, with a view of getting across the latter; but, finding the enemy strong in his front and extending beyond his left, was directed to hold on where he was, and fortify. General Humphreys drove the enemy from his front into his main line on the Hatcher, near Burgess's Mills. Generals Ord, Wright, and Parke made examinations in their fronts to determine the feasibility of an assault on the enemy's lines. The two latter reported favorably. The enemy confronting us as he did, at every point from Richmond to our extreme ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... thumbs. Then what? Glorious inspiration! The Buffet! Capital; and into the Buffet I accordingly went. Seated at a table, a nigger, slightly white about the finger tips, but otherwise quite genuine—no Moore and Burgess menial—appeared to do my bidding. "What would Monsieur take? Cafe?"—"Oui." "Cafe noir ou cafe au lait?" I decided on taking the coffee with milk, adding that anything in the biscuit line would not be ...

— Twixt France and Spain • E. Ernest Bilbrough

... caucus, I heard TRISTAM BURGESS,—"The old bald Eagle!" His baldness increases the fine effect of his appearance, for it seems as if the locks had retreated, that the contour of his very strongly marked head might be revealed to every eye. His personnel, ...

— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... honest burgess Francois Pyrard, was, so to speak, in spite of himself, and from having indulged the desire of making a fortune too rapidly, launched into adventures in which he had to pass much of his life, circumstances of a different and romantic kind caused Pietro della Valle to determine upon ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne

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