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A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

istrict of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner. Brande & C.

strument 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.

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

formerly worn by soldiers; -- called also barret cap. Also, the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics.

A hog, esp. a male hog castrated. Holland.

A short sword or dagger, worn in the fifteenth century. [Written also baslard.] Fairholt.

The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness. I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Shak.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

r in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

A staff or cudgel. [Obs.] "To fight with blunt bastons." Holland.

A part of a brick with one whole end. Bat bolt (Machinery), a bolt barbed or jagged at its butt or tang to make it hold the more firmly. Knight.

ent Germanic tribe; or to (b) as, a Batavian legion. Batavian Republic, the name given to Holland by the French after its conquest in 1795.

ve. [Obs.] About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare. Holland.

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.

ley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array. "The whole battalion views." Milton.

engthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.