Burgundy (bergundi)

A large cla of wines, both red and white, produced in Burgundy in France, and sharing with the Bordeaux wines the reputation of including the finest wines made. The mellow-tasted Burgundy . Thomson , Autumn, 1. 706. Burgundy pitch. See pitch . burgwardt (berg'ward), n. [An old law form, burg , a fortified place, a castle, + ward , a keeping.] The custody or keeping of a castle. burht, n. Early Middle English and AngloS axon form of borough1 . The burh of the Anglo-Saxon period was simply a more strictly organised form of the township. It was probably in a more defensible position; had a ditch or mound instead of the quickset hedge or "tun" from which the township took its name; and as the "tun" originally was the fenced homestead of the cultivator, the burh was the fortified house and court-yard of the mighty man the king, the magistrate, or the noble. IMG:content-2761.png:[graphic] Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 44.