knight : Idioms & Phrases

Ale"-knight` noun

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1. A pot companion. Obs.

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• noun a knight who spends his time in luxury and idleness (knighted on the carpet at court rather than on the field of battle)
  

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• . (a) A knight who enjoys ease and security, or luxury, and has not known the hardships of the field; a hero of the drawing room; an effeminate person. Shak. (b) One made a knight, for some other than military distinction or service.

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• noun English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
  Phiz; Browne.
  

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• noun a knight of the lowest order; could display only a pennon
  bachelor-at-arms; bachelor.
  

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Knight" bach"e*lor

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plural Knights bachelors

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1. A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.

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• noun a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
  knight banneret; banneret.
  

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Knight" ban"ner*et

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plural Knights bannerets

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1. 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.

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Knight" bar"o-net

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1. See Baronet.

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• noun quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
  quixotism.
  
• noun (Middle Ages) the code of conduct observed by a knight errant who is wandering in search of deeds of chivalry
  

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Knight" mar"shal

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1. (Eng. Law) 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. Wharton.

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• . See Chevalier d'industrie, under Chevalier.

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• . See Hospitaler.

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• one who gained his living by giving false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper in general. Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you anything for twelve pence." Nash.

Webster 1913

• noun in the Arthurian legend, a knight of King Arthur's court
  

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• in England, one of the representatives of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the representatives of cities and boroughs.

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• noun a knight honored for valor; entitled to display a square banner and to hold higher command
  knight banneret; banneret.
  

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Knight" serv"ice

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1. (Eng. Feud. Law) A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.

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• noun a man who belongs to a Masonic order in the United States
  
• noun a knight of a religious military order established in 1118 to protect pilgrims and the Holy Sepulcher
  Templar.
  

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Knight" Tem"plar

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plural Knights Templars

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1. See Commandery, n., 3, and also Templar, n., 1 and 3.

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• noun land tenure by service to the lord as a knight
  

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Knight"-er-rat"ic adjective

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1. Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. R. Quart. Rev.

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• noun a wandering knight travelling in search of adventure
  

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Knight"-er`rant noun

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plural Knight-errants, or Knights-errant

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1. A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.

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Knight"-er`rant*ry noun

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plural Knight-errantries

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1. The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.

   The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.

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• different classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and Companion.

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• a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers. U. S.

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• a secret order, founded in Washington, d.C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes.

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• knights belonging to an order which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common title from the table around which they sat on certain solemn days.

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• a lansquenet. B. Jonson.

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• noun a company that is a friendly acquirer in a takeover
  

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