Crossword clues for burgess
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Burgess \Bur"gess\, 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.]
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An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
--Blackstone.Note: ``A burgess of a borough corresponds with a citizen of a city.''
--Burrill. One who represents a borough in Parliament.
A magistrate of a borough.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, burgeis "citizen of a borough," from Old French borjois (Modern French bourgeois), from Late Latin burgensis (see bourgeois). Applied from late 15c. to borough representatives in Parliament and used later in Virginia and other colonies used to denote members of the legislative body, while in Pennsylvania, etc., it meant "member of the governing council of a borough."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen. 2 (lb en historical) A town magistrate. 3 (lb en historical UK) A representative of a borough in the Parliament. 4 (lb en historical US) A member of the (w: House of Burgesses), a legislative body in the colonial America, established by (w: Virginia Company) to provide civil rule in the colonies.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 33
Land area (2000): 0.075088 sq. miles (0.194476 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.075088 sq. miles (0.194476 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09802
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.555890 N, 94.615703 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Wikipedia
Burgess is a word in English that originally meant a freeman of a borough (England) or burgh (Scotland). It later came to mean an elected or unelected official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
The term was also used in some of the original American colonies. In Virginia, a "burgess" was a member of the legislative body, which was termed the " House of Burgesses."
Burgess is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Burgess may refer to:
- Burgess (title), a political official or representative
- Burgess (surname), a family name
- Burgess Company, an American airplane manufacturer
- Burgess GAA, an athletic club in Ireland
Usage examples of "burgess".
Canada it occurs with apatite in pyroxene rocks which are intrusive in Laurentian gneisses and crystalline limestones, the principal mining district being in Ottawa county in Quebec and near Burgess in Lanark county, Ontario.
The Armorer was only moments behind him, taking up a defensive position, staring behind them toward the squat shape of the Burgess gallery.
Torrey tells me that this morning, Mr Hardy here referred to a videotape at the arraignment on Burgess.
Burgess tried not to let Bianco see that his hands were shaking badly.
The two men at the study door moved aside as Bianco turned away from Burgess.
Well seemed each of them a fair burgess, To sitten in a guild-hall, on the dais.
She tasted the skyr, a form of Norse cheese curd being made on the spot by Frank and Henrietta Burgess.
No real violence was done to us, and once or twice, when it was known that some tyrannical wildgrave or venal burgess had been delivered to the mercy of the guild, we received shouted suggestions as to his disposalmost of them obscene and many impossible.
Mr Burgess told him of a new author he had come across by the name of William Makepeace Thackeray who had written a book called The Yellowplush Correspondence.
It became a mesne borough by the charter granted by John in 1201, which provided that the town should be a free borough, the burgesses to be free and quit of all tolls, and made William de Briwere overlord.
Paul Burgess was the greatest minimalist artist of the twentieth century.
King, greets William, Bishop, and Gosfregdh, Portreeve, and all the burgesses within London, French and English, friendly.
The second part presents Belli himself as poet, translated by Anthony Burgess.
Hugh ap Price, son of Rees ap Rees, a wealthy burgess of Brecknock, who founded this college for the sole use of the sons of Cambria, in 1571.
Burgess had met Lucio Giorgi before, and had not disliked the man: he carried his age with an old-world courtliness which Burgess admired.