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One guilty of the crime of burglary. Burglar alarm, a device for giving alarm if a door or window is opened from without.

A burglar. [Obs.]

Pertaining to burglary; constituting the crime of burglary. To come down a chimney is held a burglarious entry. Blackstone.

With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar. Blackstone.

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.

olland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.] Shak.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

See Burggrave.

A richly flavored wine, mostly red, made in Burgundy, France. 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 ma…

One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.

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

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.

To strip of burgeons or buds; to disbud. [R.] Holland.

A commercial city of Germany, near the mouth of the Elbe. Black Hamburg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

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.

See Lussheburgh. [Obs.]

A spurious coin of light weight imported into England from Luxemburg, or Lussheburgh, as it was formerly called. [Obs.] God wot, no Lussheburghes payen ye. Chaucer.

A city of Saxony. Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.