burgo

The womens 'ear-rings are made of the center part of a large shell, called burgo, which is about the thickness of one's little finger, and there is a hole in the ear about that size for holding it.

History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

We drawd bisd and butter at noon, burgo [a kind of porrige] the poorest trade ever man eat.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

Fitz-Thedmar gives the number of representatives of each city and borough as four: "De qualitet civitate et burgo iiii homines." —

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

At noon drawd burgo Prisoners hang their heads and look pale.

American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

It was very much beautified by one of its burgo-masters, Henry Stowband, in the year 1609, who founded a small university here, and endowed it with a considerable revenue.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823

Deinde burgo et castro Trimensl meritorum ergo praefuit, ac contra nefarios proditdies Phelinum 0*Neile et Audoenum O'Rowe strenuo propognavit.

Peerage of England. ... 1812

Sunday Oaober the 6th, I left the wall-Iefs inn-Iefe city of Ko - niglberg, and took leave at once of my honeft burgo-mafter, and of the mining country, and began to look towards Prefburg.

Travels in Hungary, with a short account of Vienna in the year 1793 1797

a rich burgo-master, to which my friends got me a special invitation, I incautiously exceeded in the curaçoa, of which I did not at all then know the strength.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Various

Georg) Faust to remain in their city; and in 1532 the junior burgo - master of Nuremberg recorded denial of entry to “Dr. Faust, the great sodomite and necromancer.”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

“True,” replied the Captain, “the Dutch burgo-masters know, as well as most people, how to regale their palates; and I served long with them in the days of our good

A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six 1825