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Napier''s Rods :: 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..

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..

Baronial :: Baronial (a.) Pertaining to a baron or a barony.

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

Baronetcy :: Baronetcy (n.) The rank or patent of a baronet.

Baronies :: Baronies (pl. ) of Baron.

Baronetage :: Baronetage (n.) The collective body of baronets.

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..

Bloody Hand :: Bloody hand () A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom..

#NAME? :: -et () A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket, facet, floweret, latchet..

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..

Domina :: Domina (n.) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.

Barony :: Barony (n.) The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron..

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..

Covert Baron :: Covert baron () Under the protection of a husband; married.

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..

Baron :: 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..

Sir :: Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

Tolt :: Tolt (n.) A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a country court.

Talliage :: Talliage (n.) A certain rate or tax paid by barons, knights, and inferior tenants, toward the public expenses..

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