barony

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The civil centre of the barony was the great farm or grange, with its mill, for in the thirteenth century the Lowlands had water-mills which to the west Highlands were scarcely known in 1745, when the Highland husbandmen were still using the primitive hand-quern of two circular stones.

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  1. noun The domain of a baron.
  2. noun The rank or dignity of a baron.

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  • Every golden-haired woman who aspired to a barony was queueing up to try to force her foot into the shoe. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • Dingle was the only town in this barony, and it was incorporated by Queen Elizabeth in 1585, when she granted it the same privileges which were enjoyed by Drogheda, with a superiority over the harbours of Ventry and Smerwick. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • The barony -- a German title granted to Paul Julius in 1871 but later confirmed by Queen Victoria as conferring the privileges of the nobility in England -- becomes extinct on her death, as she and her husband had no children. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • The local group is referred to as a Crown College because it is not associated with a barony, canton or shire and its officers report directly to their kingdom superiors. —  STPNS Free Public Feed
  • "Of course there was a doubt there Anyhow a barony--but a viscounty would be more convenient," murmured Southend Mina was puzzled. —  Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House
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  1. from Middle English baronie, from Old French baronie, barunie (French baronnie), from Middle Latin baronia, from baro(n-), a baron.
 

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