burge (berj)

A dialectal variant of bridgel, [Local, Eng.] English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 390. [ME. * burgeisie , borgeysye, OF. bourgesie, borgoisie, mod. F. bourgeoisie (= Pr. borguesia = It. borghesia ), citizenship, Mannes lyf ine the erthe is ase borgeysye. Ayenbite of Inwit , p. 161. burgee (ber'jē), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. Naut . , a swallow-tailed flag or pendant: in the merchant service it generally has the ship's burg grave, burggrave , n . See burgrave , bur- name upon it.-2. A kind of small coal used burgh (berg or bur'ō), n. [Like burg , a North. 1. A ve el for contain for burning in engine-furnaces. ing liquids, usually pearburgeint, n. and v. See burgeon . shaped or flask-shaped, burgen, n. and v. See burgeon . with or without a handle; burgenett, n. See burganet . specifically, in English, burgensic (bėr-jen's ik), a . [ burgensis , a an altar-cruet having this form. Burettes are made of rich materials, such as rock crystal, precious metals, etc., or of porcelain or faience, often highly decorated. citizen, a burge (see burge ), + ic.] Of or pertaining to a burgh or town. I strongly believe that the continual intercourse between the towns of the several trading countries of the Middle Ages, kept up especially by the Hanse Towns, may not have been without influence in producing a general similarity of development of burgensic life in them all. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), Int., p. liv. 2. In chem ., a tube, usu- ally graduated to frac- tions of a centimeter, used for accurately me a burgeon (ber'jon), n . [Also written bourgeon , a solution. suring out small quantibur-fish (ber'fish), n. A fish of the family Diodon tidæ; a porcupine-fish. burg1 (berg), n. [A North. E. and Sc. and old law form of borough1, ME. burg, etc., AS. burh. Cf. burgh.] A fortified town; a borough (which see). Burette of jasper with gold, mounting; time of Louis burg2 (berg), п. Same as brough2. burg a (berg a), n. Same as burka. burgage (ber'gāj), n. [ME burgage (OF. bur gage ), The most ancient, perhaps, of the franchises was that depending on burgage tehtalogous qualification in counties; but as the repre ive principle extended, the right of a burgage vote had become in many places attached to particular houses or sites of houses, probably those which were originally liable for a quota of the firm a burg i. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 745. (b) In Scotland, that tenure by which the property in royal burghs is held under the crown, proprietors being liable to the (nominal) service of watching and warding; or, as it is commonly termed, "service of burgh, used and wont." (ct) The property so held.