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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Bar·o·ny n.; pl. Baronies
 1. The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.
 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 of these baronies.  In Scotland, an extensive freehold.  It may be held by a commoner.
 2. Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.
 3. Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.