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The collective body of citizens or inhabitants of a borough; as, the borough voted to lay a tax. Close borough, or Pocket borough, a borough having the right of sending a member to Parliament, whose nomination is in the hands of a single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the…

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.

s broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

A shelter. [Obs]. Spenser.

rankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

A harbor. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An under constable. Shak. Johnson.

dogs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. J. R. Green.

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

A borough. [Eng.] See 1st Borough.

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.

An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.

A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.

A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.

A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.