Definition of baron

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Baron (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife..

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Baronet :: 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..
Baron :: Baron (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife..
Peer :: Peer (n.) A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm..
Covert Baron :: Covert baron () Under the protection of a husband; married.
Barony :: 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..
Knight Baro-net :: Knight baro-net () See Baronet.
Baronies :: Baronies (pl. ) of Baron.
Sir :: Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
Puisne :: Puisne (a.) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer..
Tolt :: Tolt (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.
Knight :: Knight (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John..
Baronial :: Baronial (a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
Barony :: Barony (n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron..
Magna Charta :: Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I..
Domina :: Domina (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.
Baronage :: Baronage (n.) The land which gives title to a baron.
Precedency :: Precedency (n.) The act or state of going or being before in rank or dignity, or the place of honor; right to a more honorable place; superior rank; as, barons have precedence of commoners..
Baroness :: Baroness (n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts..
Viscount :: Viscount (a.) A nobleman of the fourth rank, next in order below an earl and next above a baron; also, his degree or title of nobility. See Peer, n., 3..
Thane :: 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..
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