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Baring

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Bar·ing  (bârng), Alexander. First Baron Ashburton. 1774-1848.
British financier and public official who concluded the treaty between Great Britain and the United States that defined the border between Canada and Maine (1842).
Baring [ˈbɛərɪŋ]
n
(Biographies / Baring, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917) M, English, POLITICS: administrator) Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. 1841-1917, English administrator. As consul general in Egypt with plenipotentiary powers, he controlled the Egyptian government from 1883 to 1907
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Noun1.Baringbaring - the removal of covering              
denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering
remotion, removal - the act of removing; "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
disforestation, deforestation - the removal of trees
cornhusking - the act of removing the husks from ears of corn


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(that "stern and just man," as Maurice Baring calls him) this was enough, and he was condemned to death.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
By some invisible agency, my guardian wound him up to a pitch little short of ferocity about this trifle; and he fell to baring and spanning his arm to show how muscular it was, and we all fell to baring and spanning our arms in a ridiculous manner.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
Go-lat was among these latter, and he advanced stiffly with the hairs upon his neck and down his spine erect, uttering low growls and baring his fighting fangs, for who might say whether Zu-tag came in peace or otherwise?
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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