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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Burgomaster

Būrgh'-mās'ter, n.

noun

n. 1. A burgomaster. 2. An officer in the tin mines who directs and lays out the meers for the workmen;—called also bailiff, and bar-master. [Eng.]

Bŭrg'o-mâs'ter, n.

noun

n. [From Lat. burgus (equiv. to burg, burgh) and Eng. master; Ger. burgemeister, bürgermeister, M. H. Ger. burcmeister, D. burgermeister, Dan. borgemester, Sw. borgmästare, It. borgomastro, Fr. bourguemestre.]

  1. A burgh-master; a chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States.
  2. (Ornith.) An aquatic bird, the glaucous gull (Larus glaucus), common in arctic regions.