Hypertext Webster Gateway: "burgher"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Burgher \Burgh"er\, n. [From burgh; akin to D. burger, G.
b["u]rger, Dan. borger, Sw. borgare. See {Burgh}.]
1. A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the
privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
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 antiburghers.
Note: These parties arose among the Presbyterians of
Scotland, in 1747, and in 1820 reunited under the name
of the ``United Associate Synod of the Secession
Church.''
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
burgher
n 1: a citizen of an English borough [syn: {burgess}]
2: a member of the middle class [syn: {bourgeois}]
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