See Also: Negroid(dictionary)
negroid race(medicine)

comburgess (iou) and Negroid (iou)


comburgess (iou)



comburgess noun. LME.
[from COM- + BURGESS noun, after medieval Latin comburgensis.]
Hist.
A fellow citizen or freeman of a borough; a fellow burgess. LME.
In certain English boroughs, up to 1835: any of the municipal magistrates chosen by and from among their fellow burgesses, and associated with the alderman. M17.

Negroid (iou)



Negroid adjective & noun. Also negroid. Now considered racially offensive. M19.
[from NEGRO + -OID.]
A. adjective. Resembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of black people. M19.
b. noun. A black person. M19.
Ne'groidal adjective (now rare) L19.