Crossword clues for barony
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barony \Bar"o*ny\, n.; pl. Baronies. [OF. baronie, F. baronnie, LL. baronia. See Baron.]
The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
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.
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Old French baronie, from Late Latin *baronia, from baron (see baron).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The domain of a baron or baroness, usually as part of a larger kingdom or empire. 2 # (context historical Ireland) (altname hundred nodot=1), an English administrative division originally reckoned as comprising 100 hides and in various numbers composing counties. 3 # (context: Scotland) Any large manor or estate, regardless of its owner's rank. 4 (context: obsolete) The baronage: the body of barons in a realm. 5 baronship, the rank or position of a baron. 6 (context: law) The legal tenure of a baron's land; military tenure.
WordNet
n. the estate of a baron
the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness [syn: baronetcy]
the domain of a baron
Wikipedia
In Ireland, a barony (, plural barúntachtaí) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland, replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion. Some early baronies were later subdivided into half baronies with the same standing as full baronies.
Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the nineteenth century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. Subsequent adjustments of county boundaries mean that some baronies now straddle two counties.
A modern geographic barony, in Scotland, Ireland and outlying parts of England, constitutes an administrative division of a country, usually of lower rank and importance than a county.
Usage examples of "barony".
King was, however, accompanied by the court poet Eustache Deschamps, who immediately produced a ballade extolling the marvels of the barony.
Several magnificent estates were just then in the market, but only marquisates, counties, or baronies!
I am told that the duty on the spirits sold in that cheerful townlet exceeds the whole annual value of the barony of Iveragh, and can bear witness to the convergence of the surrounding population on market day.
He avers that, having seen more than enough of war in his lifetime, he would have gladly kept out of this one, had your troops not razed some of the homesteadings and a village of his vassals in the western parts of the Barony of Clonmacnowen.
It is no secret that he intends to establish a system of baronies, each baron vested with limited powers and responsible to him in fief complete, soon as he observes plausible candidates.
July 1828 Lady Julia Tomlinson Hay, daughter of George, 7th marquess of Tweeddale, by whom he had three daughters, but being without heir male the barony lapsed on his death, the baronetcy passing to his nephew, Charles Parry Hobhouse.
I am aware there is a residue of power left behind This, after all, is why we dispose of our toxic spell byproducts at the Devonshire facility, as mandated by the laws of the barony, the province, and the Confederation.
Tsurani troops put the red flower to every thatched roof in his barony last autumn, forcing the Baron now to spend sizeable sums for the hire of carpenters, daubers, and thatchers, but the mud and straw of LaMut invariably crumbled if a harsh thought was sent in its direction.
TOa-Phelathon, had offerei Caine a barony for his heroism against the Khulan Horde at Cei aeno.
The lazy part of me was still hoping to get away with running only one set of projections for the thecological impact of leprechauns on the Barony of Angels.
Kingdoms of Polaris, of Cygnus, of Perseus and of Cassiopeia, and of the Baronies of Hercules Cluster.
In this instance, Stenz had heard murmurs of the involvement of the Preservationists, a shadowy conspiracy whose alleged objective was to overthrow the baronies.
Indeed, the taverns had been full of little else, afire with the news that all the baronies were arming.
Those were old worldish days, loyal times in joyous townlands, old times in the barony.
Barony of Angels, the Long Beach crew had a regular library of scriptures on which the people with whom they dealt could swear truthfulness: everything from the Analects to the Zend-Avesta.