English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Baronage
(n.)
The dignity or rank of a baron.
Baronage
(n.)
The land which gives title to a baron.
Baroness
(n.)
A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title
in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Baronet
(n.)
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.
Baronetage
(n.)
State or rank of a baronet.
Baronetage
(n.)
The collective body of baronets.
Baronetcy
(n.)
The rank or patent of a baronet.
Baronial
(a.)
Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
Baronies
(pl. )
of Barony
Barony
(n.)
The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or
rank of a baron.
Barony
(n.)
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.
Baroque
(a.)
In bad taste; grotesque; odd.
Baroscope
(n.)
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.
Baroscopic
(a.)
Alt. of Baroscopical
Baroscopical
(a.)
Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.
Barouche
(n.)
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.
Barouchet
(n.)
A kind of light barouche.
Barpost
(n.)
A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a
passage into a field.
Barque
(n.)
Same as 3d Bark, n.
Barque
(n.)
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast
square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.