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- Baron - n. - A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
- Baron - n. - A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
- Baronage - n. - The whole body of barons or peers.
- 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.
- Baron - n. - A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.
- Napier's rods - - A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.
- Tolt - n. - A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.
- Baronial - a. - Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
- 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.
- Thane - n. - A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.