Būrgh'er, n.

(būrg'er), n. [From burgh: D. burger, O. H. Ger. purgari, M. H. Ger. burgäre, N. H. Ger. bürger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare.]

1. An inhabitant of a burgh or borough, who enjoys the privileges of the borough of which he is a freeman.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath, (in which burgesses profess “the true religion professed within the realm,”) the opposite party being called anti-burghers.

☞ These parties arose in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name of the “United Associate Synod of the Secession Church.”