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- Knight - n. - A young servant or follower; a military attendant.
- Knight - n. - In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life.
- Knight - n. - One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John.
- Knight - n. - A champion; a partisan; a lover.
- Knight - n. - A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head.
- Knight - n. - A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
- Knight - v. t. - To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.
- Knight bachelor - - A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
- Knight banneret - - A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
- Knight baro-net - - See Baronet.
- Knight marshal - - An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.
- Knight service - - A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
- Knight Templar - - See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.
- Knight-er-ratic - a. - Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
- Knight-errant - n. - A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
- Knight-errantries - pl. - of Knight-errantry
- Knight-errantry - n. - The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
- Knight-errants - pl. - of Knight-errant
- Knightage - n. - To body of knights, taken collectively.
- Knighted - imp. & p. p. - of Knight
- Knighthead - n. - A bollard timber. See under Bollard.
- Knighthood - n. - The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry.
- Knighthood - n. - The whole body of knights.
- Knighting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Knight
- Knightless - a. - Unbecoming a knight.
- Escutcheon - n. - The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister.
- Escuage - n. - Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.
- Knights bachelors - pl. - of Knight bachelor
- Lady - n. - A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
- Lady - n. - A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
- Banneret - n. - Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; -- commonly used as a title of rank.
- Sir - n. - A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.
- Knight-errant - n. - A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
- Knight bachelor - - A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
- Bachelor - n. - A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
- Guide - n. - The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
- Orle - n. - The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest.
- Knights bannerets - pl. - of Knight banneret
- Knights Templars - pl. - of Knight Templar
- Dominus - n. - Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
- Knight banneret - - A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
- Spencer - n. - A fore-and-aft sail, abaft the foremast or the mainmast, hoisted upon a small supplementary mast and set with a gaff and no boom; a trysail carried at the foremast or mainmast; -- named after its inventor, Knight Spencer, of England [1802].
- Esquire - n. - Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.
- Companion - n. - A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.