Part 923

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The collective body of baronets.</def>

<h1>Baronetcy</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"on*et*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The rank or patent of a baronet.</def>

<h1>Baronial</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Ba*ro"ni*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to a baron or a barony.</def> "<i>Baronial</i> tenure."

<i>Hallam.</i>

<h1>Barony</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"o*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Baronies</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>. <ety>[OF. <ets>baronie</ets>, F. <ets>baronnie</ets>, LL. <ets>baronia</ets>. See <er>Baron</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English <i>hundred</i>, 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.</def>

<i>Brande & C.</i>

<h1>Baroque</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Ba*roque"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[F.; cf. It. <ets>barocco</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>In bad taste; grotesque; odd.</def>

<h1>Baroscope</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"o*scope</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> weight + <ets>-scope</ets>: cf. F. <ets>baroscope</ets>.]</ety> <def>Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.</def>

<h1>Baroscopic, Baroscopical</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw><hw>Bar`o*scop"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bar`o*scop"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.</def>

<h1>Barouche</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Ba*rouche"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[G. <ets>barutsche</ets>, It. <ets>baroccio</ets>, <ets>biroccio</ets>, LL. <ets>barrotium</ets>, fr. L. <ets>birotus</ets> two-wheeled; <ets>bi=bis</ets> twice + <ets>rota</ets> wheel.]</ety> <def>A four-wheeled carriage, with a falling top, a seat on the outside for the driver, and two double seats on the inside arranged so that the sitters on the front seat face those on the back seat.</def>

<h1>Barouchet</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Ba`rou*chet"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A kind of light barouche.</def>

<h1>Barpost</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"post`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.</def>

<h1>Barque</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Barque</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as 3d <er>Bark</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Barracan</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"ra*can</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>baracan</ets>, <ets>bouracan</ets> (cf. Pr. <ets>barracan</ets>, It. <ets>baracane</ets>, Sp. <ets>barragan</ets>, Pg. <ets>barregana</ets>, LL. <ets>barracanus</ets>), fr. Ar. <ets>barrak\'ben</ets> a kind of black gown, perh. fr. Per. <ets>barak</ets> a garment made of camel's hair.]</ety> <def>A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.</def>

<h1>Barrack</h1> <Xpage=120>

<hw>Bar"rack</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>baraque</ets>, fr. It. <ets>baracca</ets> (cf. Sp. <ets>barraca</ets>), from LL. <ets>barra</ets> bar. See <er>Bar</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety>