Word Meanings - FREIHERR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In Germany and Austria, a baron.

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• BARONET
  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. Note: The order was founded
• BARONIAL
  Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
• BARONAGE
  1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.
• BARONG
  A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
• BARON
  A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port.
• BARONETAGE
  1. State or rank of a baronet. 2. The collective body of baronets.
• AUSTRIAN
  Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.
• BARONETCY
  The rank or patent of a baronet.
• BARONESS
  A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
• BARONY
  1. The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron. 2. 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
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• COURT-BARON
  An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.
• KNIGHT BARONET
  See BARONET
• CHIEF BARON
  The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.