Burgess

1. n. An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
2. n. An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough.
3. n. One who represents a borough in Parliament.
4. n. A magistrate of a borough.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.