English English Dictionary

The dignity or rank of a baron.

The land which gives title to a baron.

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.

State or rank of a baronet.

The collective body of baronets.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

of Barony

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.

In bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

Alt. of Baroscopical

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.

A kind of light barouche.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

Same as 3d Bark, n.

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.