n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who seceded from the Scottish Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun.
Syn. -- hamburger. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ So named after Brandenburg, a province and a town of Prussia. ] A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only a frog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broad horizontal stripe. [ 1913 Webster ]

He wore a coat . . . trimmed with Brandenburgs. Smollett. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ AS. burh, burg, cf. LL. burgus. See 1st Borough. ] 1. A fortified town. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A borough. [ Eng. ] See 1st Borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Burg: cf. F. bourgage, LL. burgagium. ] (Eng. Law) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small marine fish; -- also called cunner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Bergamot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Burgonet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of small coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A swallow-tailed flag; a distinguishing pennant, used by cutters, yachts, and merchant vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Print.) See 1st Bourgeois. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A burgess; a citizen. See 2d Bourgeois. [ R. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bud. See Bourgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burgeis, OF. burgeis, fr. burcfortified town, town, F. bourg village, fr. LL. burgus fort, city; from the German; cf. MHG. burc, G. burg. See 1st Borough, and cf. 2d Bourgeois. ] 1. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city.” Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who represents a borough in Parliament. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A magistrate of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Before the Revolution, the representatives in the popular branch of the legislature of Virginia were called burgesses; they are now called delegates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burgess oath. See Burgher, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of privilege of a burgess. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. burggraf; burg fortress + graf count: cf. D. burggraaf, F. burgrave. See Margrave. ] (Germany) Originally, one appointed to the command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. See Burg. ] A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to a burgh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Burgh + bote. ] (Old Law) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Burgh + F. brèche, equiv. to E. breach. ] (AS. Law) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From burgh; akin to D. burger, G. bürger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See Burgh. ] 1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These parties arose among the Presbyterians of Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the “United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Burgomaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or privileges of a burgher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A burgomaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (AS. Law) [ Burgh + mote meeting. ] A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. burg town, F. bourg, fr. LL. burgus (of German origin) + OF. lere thief, fr. L. latro. See Borough, and Larceny. ] (Law) One guilty of the crime of burglary. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A burglar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. secure against burglary.
Syn. -- burglar-proof. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Burglaries [ Fr. Burglar; cf. LL. burglaria. ] (Law) 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. Wharton. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ By statute law in some of the United States, burglary includes the breaking with felonious intent into a house by day as well as by night, and into other buildings than dwelling houses. Various degrees of the crime are established. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. [ by back-formation from burglar. ] to commit a burglary; to enter and rob a dwelling.
Syn. -- burglarize, heist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ D. burgemeester; burg borough + meester master; akin to G. burgemeister, bürgermeister. See 1st Borough, and Master. ] 1. A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bouruignotte, because the Burgundians, F. Bouruignons, first used it. ] A kind of helmet. [ Written also burganet. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. E. burgood yeast, perh. fr. W. burym yeast + cawl cabbage, gruel. ] A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [ Written also burgout. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] See Burggrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An old province of France (in the eastern central part). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burgundy pitch, a resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a hamburger with melted cheese on it. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [ R. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The name of a battle of the American Civil War fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylavania, in 1863. At this battle, the defeat of General Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate army was a major victory for the Union, and is considered by many a turning point in the war, after which victory by the Confederacy was no longer thought possible; as, many thousands died at Gettysburg. See also Gettysburg Address.
Syn. -- battle of Gettysburg. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

prop. n. The popular name of a speech given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA, as part of a ceremony to dedicate a portion of that battlefield as a cemetary for soldiers who died fighting there. See note below. [ PJC ]

☞ Lincoln's Gettysburg Address,

Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from this earth.

n. A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. --
Hamburg edging, a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. --
Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ from Homburg, Germany, the place of first manufacture. ] A felt hat with a crown that is creased lengthwise, and a brim that is slightly curled upward at the edge.
Syn. -- fedora, felt hat, trilby. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ n., } pos>n. A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten until the curing has developed a peculiar and, to most people, unpleasant odor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Lussheburgh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of Luxembourg.
Syn. -- Luxembourger. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Luxemburg; as, Luxemburger streets. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Luxemburg (definition 2); as, Luxemburger castles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Luxemburg; as, our Luxemburger neighbors. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A city of Saxony. [ 1913 Webster ]

Magdeburg centuries,
Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere. [ 1913 Webster ]