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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Băr'o-ny, n.

noun

n. [Fr. baronnie, Pr. & L. Lat. baronia. See supra.]

  1. The lordship, honor, or fee of a baron, whether spiritual or temporal. Johnson.
  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 baronies in all. Brande.