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ed town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by the sovereign, with a certain jurisdiction; in America, an incorporated town or village, as in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Burrill. Erskine.…

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

See Headborough. [Obs.]

A headborough; a borsholder.

The mayor, governor, or bailiff of a borough.

One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.

The practices of a boroughmonger.

See Borachio. [Obs.]

See Borage, n., etc.

Coarse woolen cloth; hence, coarse clothing; a garment. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another. Rites borrowed from the ancients. Macaulay. It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above. Milton.…

One who borrows. Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Shak.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapidary work.

A boride. [Obs.]

Pledge; borrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.

A drink, used in the East. See Boza.

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

a blast furnace; also, one of the hollow iron or brick sides of the bed of a puddling or boiling furnace.